Why isn't there more demand for organic wine?
Guest contributor
Monday 21 May 2018
Inspired by this Long Read on natural wine in last Tuesday's Guardian, Saussignac winemaker Caro Feely of Château Feely* wrings her hands.
With the evidence piled up about why you should choose organic wine, why do people continue to drink chemically farmed wine? It's a question that has perplexed me for a while.
Evidence clearly shows that systemic pesticides are linked to:
- cancer (for example, see this article and this one and this one)
- nervous-system disruption (see recent research about Parkinson’s Disease in France based on French national data, in the French original or this extract...
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