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Article: How organic food has been dished up distastefully
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- August 3, 2009
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Elitist, dear and healthy: certain meat and vegetables have been
simmering too long in a stew of misconceptions, writes ANN MARIE
HOURIHANE
I ONCE had a friend who was an organic farmer. He gave it up to
become a psychiatric nurse. Frankly, we were relieved; we felt that
we had suffered enough. There were the problems over getting his
organic accreditation, there were the weevils, there was the carrot
fly, there was the fact that he could not afford to pay anybody
wages. On the rare occasions when he had enough crop to harvest, his
single assistant was paid in cigarettes instead of cash. We were not
terribly grateful for the cigarettes - we were his friends, after
all, and we had to smoke ...