FREE RANGE
There is still no legal definition of free range. Birds with access to a ventilated veranda can be sold as “Free Range”. The term carries no guarantee that the birds have been fed any differently from conventionally produced birds - a diet rich in growth promoting antibiotics and artificial yolk colourants. And the standards for organic poultry are open to a wide variation in interpretation!

ANTIBIOTICS
Intended for occasional use to treat persistent disease, these are now routinely included in all poultry and pig rations for their growth enhancing qualities! It is a well established fact that overuse of antibiotics causes the growth of highly resistant strains of bacteria –a phenomenon now being witnessed in the emergence of new SUPERBUGS in hospitals and a new and potentially lethal super E.Coli strain on farms.

ORGANO-PHOSPHATES
A group of chemicals derived from the deadly nerve gases developed during the last war. Highly effective pesticides, they have been widely used for the control of virtually all farm parasites for the past 50 years. Since the early 50’s there have been well documented cases of farmers who have been totally incapacitated by exposure to these compounds. The UK government has only now begun to admit the possibility that OP’s are dangerous and should be withdrawn from use. Studies in the States have also shown that OP’s accumulate in the flesh of animals and so pass into the human food chain.

REAL MEAT
Not now, and never was, organic.

SCOTCH BEEF
Not organic; sometimes born & bred in Scotland, often only finished there, but reared in exactly the same way as they would have been on any conventional farm in any part of the country.

ADDITIVE FREE
Totally unregulated and self enforced.