Organics conference with warning.

Prince Charles opens organics conference with warning. 20/09/2005. ABC News Online:

"Prince Charles has officially opened the World Organics Conference in Adelaide, with a warning of what he describes as a frightening acceleration of urbanisation throughout the world."

I know we keep thinking in terms of cost and profit margins. I know the almighty dollar runs us all, but you'd think we'd work out that foods full of chemicals and pesticides would not be what we want in our systems. I can't believe we would want to feed ourselves on chemical rubbish. The sprayed and polluted earth then pollutes our water. Are we actually rational? Why would we want to eat preservatives and chemicals? Why would we not want to eat nutritious , wholesome food? Our foods contain something like 500 chemical agents. Okay, we have accustomed ourselves to the "convenience" foods. We don't want to spend all day cooking. Why not? Smells delicious. Tastes better. Does not harm us. I am glad Adelaide is having a conference about organic food. We all need to eat proper food and we all need to learn that cooking and eating are a joy in life. But we have a generation of kids brought up on front of palate food who enjoy eating cardboard. We need to get back to real food for real people. And that is both about local produce and importing what you don't have. It only takes a day on a plane to get something somewhere ...so if we can't get blueberries here, we ought to be able to import them pretty easily. So people ...countries, need to sit down and work out who is doing what so we don't duplicate, so we are more efficient and so we can provide healthy, nutritious food for ourselves...and no con tricks with the labelling!! Food, glorious food. It's something to savour, not shovel into your mouth.