文档介绍：The New Shopper’s Guide to
Organic Food
Lynda Brown
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CONTENTS
Foreword viii
Preface ix
One What anic Farming? 1
Two Pesticides, Pollution and GMOs 39
Three The Cost anic Food, and its True Value 48
Four Shopping anic Food 65
Five Where to Buy and anic Food 85
anic Vegetables, Fruit and Herbs – and Seeds to 114
Grow Your Own
anic Dairy Produce 140
anic Meat, Game, Poultry and Fish 168
anic Bread and Flour 211
anic Tea and Coffee, Sweeteners, Dried Herbs and 231
Spices
anic Alcoholic and Soft Drinks 256
anic Superfoods 278
anic Baby Foods 303
Fourteen anic Store Cupboard 309
anics Online 358
Appendix and Further Information 378
a–z anic britain: 393
Soil anic work 399
Taste anic Britain: A–Z Directory 405
Alastair Sawday’s Bed and Breakfast List 535
Acknowledgements 539
About the Author
About the Publisher
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Copyright
FOREWORD
We live collectively on one twelfth of the Earth and raise our food on a
quarter of the surface we occupy. During the last forty years, nearly a third
of the w