Originally Posted by twebst

UK: Organic food is just a tax on the gullible
09.aug.09
Sunday Times
Dominic Lawson

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle6788644.ece
There are two reliable ways of telling if you have won an argument. The first is if your disputants switch from discussion of the facts to accusations about motives; the second, more obviously, is if they descend to mere abuse.


Alan Dangour, a nutritionist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, should therefore feel he has had an encouragingly uncomfortable week. He is the author of a peer-reviewed meta-study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that concluded, from 50 years of scientific evidence, that so-called "organic" food was no healthier than conventionally farmed products. By the end of last week Dangour felt as if he had been covered with the brown stuff the organic lobby holds most sacred. He revealed that he had received "hate mail" and was "taken aback" by the "abusive" language used.