Friday, 15 April 2016

The price of Organic food, can come down in time

Organic food is relatively expensive for hard pressed family finances, but in time it can get cheaper.
In terms of mineral content, as shown by companion blogs in this series, organic food is actually way cheaper than non organic food, so depleted in iron and cobalt, as to be virtually valueless.
As organic demand rises each year, demand can outstrip supply, which causes prices to rise. The answer to this is to increase the supply, so that massive increased production would produce economies of scale leading to cheaper organic food.
If as much research money was poured into restoring our severely depleted soils and micro-biology, bees, worms and so on, as in damaging those soils, so the health of the land and its people, which includes our educational establishments, old people, NHS, prisons etc, will all benefit from a vast increase in the mineral content of their food. Imagine if Macdonalds and KFC began to source organic food, then even Fast Foods would begin to restore some endorphins to our kids, with all the benefits that would bring ?
In Central India, thousands of small scale farmers have rejected GM and chemical food production, as it reduced their income and their yields, so they have gone back to being organic.
The problem in Britain, is that people have been fed the lie that the so called 'Green Revolution' would feed the world; but that has led to a massive crisis in ill health and mental instability in our society. All of us suffer from the use of chemicals, as auto immune diseases rocket and the bees die off. Rachel Carson's classic work, Silent Spring, published back in 1962, has become a sad reality as our thrushes and starlings have disappeared and bees now have to be imported into California; so expensive are the hives now there, that bee keepers steal each others hives which 90% of all the world's almond production in California is solely dependent on.
So what price, chemically produced GM food ? It may appear cheaper, but in reality it is costing us all a hidden fortune in our health, in Mother Nature's health and above all, in our wallets.

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