Certified Organic?

According to a simple, trusting person like me, organic produce should be what’s grown under natural conditions, in soil, under rain and sunshine. If it’s a dairy product, it should be produced with natural methods using happy animals.

But it’s not always the case.

Sure, it’s still better than having pesticide- and antibiotic-bathed food, but it’s good to be aware that just because a product is certified organic, it is not necessarily as organic as it can be.

Orchard crops are regularly sprayed , but with ‘acceptable’ chemicals. Apples are kept fresh for many months with hormones. Greenhouse grown tomatoes are simply not the same as those grown under rain and shine. If you have ever grown your own, you will know what I mean.

Many salads and herbs labelled organic are grown using hydroponics, without any mention on the label. How can anything grown in water with some dissolved minerals under artificial light be organic?

Most organic yoghurts contain milk powder. Why?

Your responsibility is to be aware of these aspects. And also be a discriminatory consumer: why eat apples months after the season is over? It might be deep winter, but those apples will tell your body that it is still autumn…

The best option is to grow what you can!