We have been an accredited member of the Soil Association since 1996
Why Buy Local and Organic?
Help the environment
Buying locally grown food - which hasn't been flown hundreds of miles to reach your plate - is one of the best ways you can help to reduce your impact on our climate.
An organic production system works at its best with a mix of livestock and crops forming a self-contained unit. Natural fertiliser emerges from the rear of the animals. These same animals are then fed on feed and crops grown on the farm.
The animals
Animals are good for the organic farm and pretty good for the dinner plate. There are a number of dimensions to the rearing of organic meat animals:
- Freedom from malnutrition
- Freedom from thermal or physical discomfort
- Freedom to express most normal, socially acceptable patterns of behavior
- Freedom from fear
Organic farms have to take these into account when rearing livestock and it occurs that the world would be a better place if they were also consistently applied to humans in every country on earth.
Other standards required for organic meat production prescribe low densities of animals, no growth promoters and no high protein feeds. The downside of all this is naturally that the meat costs more.
If this is a genuine concern to you try reversing the welfare rights above and ask yourself if it's worth it?
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