Andy Lewis at The Quackometer:
The Soil Association is the marketing organisation behind so-called Organic Farming. It’s stated aims are to campaign for “healthy, humane and sustainable food, farming and land use.” However, it is routinely criticised for embracing pseudoscientific and dogmatic ideas about farming and animal welfare.
Matters have now come to a head as four Trustees resigned from the Soil Association earlier in the month. In a blog post, one of them (Joanna Blythman – a food writer, campaigner against GM and ‘investigative journalist’), writes,
[T]he questionable presence on Management Committee (with an attendant reputational risk) of a non-organic farmer and a doctor who publicly attacks an important tool of organic animal husbandry (homoeopathy) seems not to concern a Council that purports to be committed to good governance.
Blythman appears to think that using superstitious forms of medicine can help animal husbandry. She says that “We think that the organic approach to food and farming is ecologically coherent, humane, scientifically responsible and potent”. Homeopathy is none of those things. Others around her may also have doubts. On another blog, one of the other Trustees and baker, Andrew Whitley, shows there are wider concerns about watering down the hardcore messages of the Organic movement.
No comments:
Post a Comment