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The term "organic" is a legal category, enforced by the government. As such, any food labelled organic must be grown or reared without the use of:
At present organic farming make up less than one per cent of the total UK farming, and 70% of organic foods sold in the UK must be imported. However, an increasing number of people are converting to organic foods, and the government estimate that by 2002, organic food will account for 7-8% of the total UK food market, with a retail value of over £1 billion.
Organic food is produced from safe, sustainable farming systems, producing healthy crops and livestock without collateral damage to the environment. By avoiding the use of artificial fertilisers and pesticides on the land, it seeks to develop a healthy, fertile soil through organic methods only, and breaks away from the sterile practice of monoculture farming. But, most of all, the food produced organically is of the highest nutritional quality, and tastes extremely good!
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The idea behind Reading's True Food Club is to help fill the gap that's
been left by the closure of wholefood shops in the town, and to support
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