Group 1
Eating organic is a way of defining oneself as natural, good, caring, different from the junk-food-scoffing __________.
masses
For developing parts of the world, it is __________.
irrelevant
Perhaps the focus should be on helping these countries to gain __________ to the most advanced farming techniques, rather than going back to basics.
access
The aim is to show that they care about the environment and about people's health. But is this the right __________?
approach
Unlike __________ farming, the organic approach means farming with natural, rather than man-made, fertilisers and pesticides.
conventional
Europe is now the biggest market for organic food in the world, __________ by 25 percent a year over the past 10 years.
expanding
Here, land tends to be so starved and crop __________ so low that there simply is not enough organic matter to put back into the soil.
yields
So what is the __________ of organic food for some people?
atrraction
The differences __________ by these things are likely to be greater than any differences brought about by using an organic or nonorganic system of production.
created
Yet studies into organic farming worldwide continue to __________ this claim.
reject
Even where results __________ there was evidence of a difference, the reviewers found no sign that these differences would have any noticeable effect on health.
indicated
In this context, the less something is touched by the human hand, the healthier people __________ it must be.
assume
__________ by plentiful food, it’s not nature they worry about, but technology.
Surrounded
The notion that organic food is safer than ‘normal’ food is also __________ by the fact that many of our most common foods are full of natural toxins.
contradicted
The simplistic claim that organic food is more nutritious than conventional food was always likely to be __________.
misleading
Food is a natural product, and the health value of different foods will __________ for a number of reasons, including freshness, the way the food is cooked, the type of soil it is grown in, the amount of sunlight and rain crops have received, and so on.
vary
Our __________ with the ethics and safety of what we eat - concerns about antibiotics in animals, additives in food, GM crops and so on.
obsessions
Techniques such as crop rotation improve soil quality and help organic farmers __________ for the absence of man-made chemicals.
compensate
Today, many governments are promoting organic or natural farming methods that avoid use of pesticides and other __________ products.
artificial
__________, the organic farming movement is an expensive luxury for shoppers in well-manicured Europe.
Ultimately