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My tips for bird nesting season in south-west France
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Non-bio labels may be better
It must be better to eat food grown naturally ( More people eating organic, connexionfrance.com ). but real progress will come when foods have to be labelled “chemicals used in production” or similar.
Meat and fish are the sticking points, as they are already relatively dear and while vegetables, milk and eggs might cost 50% more at the checkout that totals only a euro or two out of your pocket !
Food grown in the Third World, coffee, chocolate, rice, lentils, etc is an easy choice, as you dread to think what conditions are like for populations growing such foods without the relative protection that the ‘Bio’ label provides...
H.H, Corrèze
