QUOTE (BluePixie @ Sep 6 2009, 06:40 PM)

QUOTE (rubbabudbud @ Sep 6 2009, 05:45 PM)

Ever since the Soil Association accredited farmed salmon as 'organic' their
label is meaningless IMHO. Now they have diluted their code why abide by their standards-they have been compromised by relentless pressure from corporations wanting to add the SA emblem and double their profit margins. One of the primary founders resigned over this travesty of organic justice!
Still doesn't make all-mix organic.
Can fish be organic? - wild caught is unsustainable, therefore can never be considered organic IMHO.
Why is farmed fish with certain standards of care and feed any different from organically farmed meat?
Fish-farming as a whole is generally no better than keeping battery hens, (e.g. high density, growth hormones, antibiotics in feed) but that doesn't mean that if you knock out all the crap and keep fish in low density farms, allowed to grow at natural rates with normal foodstuffs and no nasty additives they can't be organic.
My 2 p.......
Wild fish is fine if managed sustainably. Farmed salmon is unorganic imo since it is not its natural habitat. Consequently the fish is fattier and blander tasting since it isn't having the 'work out' it would normally have swimming fro
sea up-river. Just an example of the continuing dilution of organic principles to make an extra buck.
The major disadvantage of this is that wild line-caught salmon is stonkingly expensive.

My point is that if the SA have a lax definition and continue to compromise perhaps we need a different frame of reference or a more agreeable term! I shall continue to buy organic though despite the gripe. Deffo positives in there somewhere.
QUOTE (Arnold Layne @ Sep 7 2009, 10:10 AM)

QUOTE (rubbabudbud @ Sep 6 2009, 05:45 PM)

Now they have diluted their code why abide by their standards
I don't, myself.
I was just making the point that no indoor grown Cannabis would get a SA accreditation, regardless of compost used.
Only cos of the leccy used though?
E2A tricky phone keyboard!