Why isn't there more demand for organic wine?
Guest contributor
Inspired by this Long Read on natural wine in last Tuesday's Guardian, Saussignac winemaker Caro Feely of Château Feely* wrings her hands.
Monday, 21 May 2018
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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