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Rebranding of non-organic produce may help persuade consumers to go organic

When some people think of organic food, they think it’s boring, or posh or unnecessary. Springwatch presenter Kate Humble reckons it’s possible to turn people not relabelling organic produce but by branding non-organic produce as “wildlife unfriendly” instead.

If there was more awareness placed on how intensive cows are farmed for milk in an ever demanding economy, people may just help support organic food and the animals that produce it. She claims that if 5% of the population converts to organic milk, costing just an extra pound a week, then there would be an extra 52,000 acres of organic land – that’s the size of Greater Birmingham. This would help create better landscapes, healthier, happier cows, and humans!

Organic Living – something new or something old?

I grew up in a farm in the middle of the Lake District where we grew our own veg, we had cows and sheep that went to slaughter every year (and then fully stocked the freezer!), we had chickens for eggs, my Mum baked like a dream, we re-used everything possible (very little plastic in the house)… we lived fairly organically without it being the latest fashionable thing.

So why is there do much hype about living organically?

An awful lot of people stuck to traditional ways of raising family s, and it is only recently (the last 20-30 years) that the ability to buy processed food more conveniently than making it from scratch, has become so popular.

And now we are told it isn’t good for us. But it has grown into such a massive industry, that creates so many jobs and contributes so greatly to the economy, that if we lost it, surely we would never get out of this economic slump?