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06/06/2026

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05/06/2026

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"How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?"

“I don’t understand why industrial agriculture is called 'conventional'. Surely conventional is the small-scale family farming. That’s convention over thousands of years, but now we call it conventional to grow our food with chemical poisons and I see nothing conventional about that.

"It’s the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers that have so damaged the soil. As the soil becomes deader and deader, deeper and deeper, we lose all the biodiversity of the soil and that, in turn, is affecting our crops.

"Another example is the so-called industrial weeds, which are actually food for millions of different insects, which, in turn, are food for the birds. The insects are disappearing at a terrifying rate, including bees worldwide, and there, of course, we need them to fertilize our food crops. Birds are disappearing. The changes since I was born, 85 years ago, in the flora and fauna of the UK are shocking and that is all because of this so-called “conventional” farming.

“If we grow organic and we all start demanding organic food, that will mean a reduction of all those chemicals used in conventional agriculture. That means that, once again, we will be providing environments that are okay for insects and birds, and we shall start to see a recurrence of biodiversity.

“At the same time, it will mean much less illness and sickness for people, including children. It doesn’t make sense to eat food grown with poison. It’s not surprising there are all these childhood illnesses that nobody really understands and certainly, if you have been eating any of this poison that the food is grown with, you’re going to be more susceptible to the sicknesses that go around.

"The organic movement is really helping the environment but it’s also helping human health.”

Dr. Jane Goodall