By Martin Hickman,
Consumer Affairs Correspondent

Organic food is no healthier than conventional food, according to the world's biggest research project into the issue.

A review of scientific studies for the past 50 years found there were no significant nutritional differences between conventional produce and organic fruit, vegetables, meat and milk.

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The National Farmers Union said it had always said that both conventional and organic food to be "equally healthy and nutritious."

The NFU said: "It...

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Yes we can - yes we did


"Some men see things as they are and ask 'Why?'
I dream things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
- Robert F. Kennedy, 1968

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Instead of Eating to Diet, They’re Eating to Enjoy
By TARA PARKER-POPE

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“If something is high in calories, I try to look at the big picture,” said Ms. McClintock, a photo service account executive. “If you’re going to indulge in something, just try and walk it off or limit it to once a week.”

Some former dieters say they’ve been influenced by the international Slow Food movement, a 10-year-old group that encourages locally grown, unprocessed food. Over the Labor Day weekend an estimated 60,000 people attended the Slow Food Nation festival...

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Harvard nutrition experts say there is no solid evidence that organic foods in general are healthier for humans, but that organically raised meat may prevent the spread of diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease.

Conventionally raised livestock can catch this disease by eating the meat or bones of infected animals. But because animals sold as organic meat do not eat slaughtered animals, they are unlikely to catch mad cow disease.

Perhaps the most common concern about conventionally grown foods is the fear of ingesting pesticides...

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The photographs of the tribe near the border between Brazil and Peru are rare evidence that such groups exist.

A Brazilian official involved in the expedition said many of them are in increasing danger from illegal logging.

"What is happening in this region is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna
and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the 'civilized' ones, treat the world," Jose Carlos Meirelles was quoted as saying in a statement by the Survival International group.

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