Feedstuffs Food Link Interview with Alex Avery

Filed under: News — admin at 4:41 pm on Monday, December 11, 2006

Interview by Trent Luce
Feedstuffs
December 11, 2006

Trent Luce interview with Alex Avery about his new book, The Truth About Organic Foods. Alex Avery explains that the book is designed to be used as a tool to help consumers distinguish fact from fiction about organic foods by cutting through the marketing hype.

To watch the interview with Alex Avery, click here or on the link below. http://www.feedstuffsfoodlink.com/ME2/Apps/CPTraffic/track.asp?mtr=/Media/MediaManager/FL-organics-avery-medium.wmv

Organic chicken is fattier than battery birds

Filed under: News — admin at 4:39 pm on Sunday, December 3, 2006

By Eva Langlands
The Sunday Times
December 3, 2006

Excerpt…

ORGANIC chicken is less nutritious, contains more fat and tastes worse than free range or battery-farmed meat, scientists have discovered.

Tests on supermarket chicken breasts found organic varieties contained fewer omega-3 fatty acids and lower levels of antioxidants, giving the meat an inferior taste. Some were found to contain twice as much cholesterol. (Read on …)