As a city boy, I have learnt to tread carefully through the organic farming debate, watching for what might stick to my boots. Big conventional food companies require scrutiny. But so do the champions of organic food.
When Stanford University researchers said this month that they had found no strong evidence that organic foods were more nutritious than conventional ones, I expected that organic advocates such as the Soil Association would immediately try to rubbish their conclusions, as they did when a 2009 UK study reached similar results.
The Soil Association, whose patron is Prince Charles, duly leapt in, declaring Stanford’s “American study” to be “of limited application in Europe”.
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