Which is better: organic food or locally produced non-organic food?
This is a very complex question, and really depends on what’s important to you when you’re buying food. So if, for example, animal welfare’s important to you, then you can rest assured that the animal welfare levels will be really high in organic produce and organic standards, so you might want to buy organic. People who tend to buy locally, if they’re concerned about food miles – and food miles are something that are clocked up once the food is being produced. So, for example, we have these crazy systems where some food is produced in one area and then it has to be shipped all the way up to the other end of the country to be distributed to be sold all the way down again. And so buying locally can stop that happening. But what’s also important to notice is that organic production is actually inherently local, because we’re relying on nature for pest control in our fertility building. Or it’s already on the farm, so there’s no need to buy in fertilizers and pesticides that also probably
