Parliamentary search - Organic Food

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

464 c183-204WH

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Roger Williams | 464 c203WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister is right about food safety but, when the claim is made that food from a third-world cou...

Phil Woolas | 464 c203-4WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, we do, and our regime has been referred to. I am told that there are in fact nine licensing bod...

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Brian Iddon | 464 c184WH (Link to this contribution) I am always willing to learn, and I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. The 1970 Nobel prize...

Evan Harris | 464 c185WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his speech so far, and on his promotion of a rational view of c...

Brian Iddon | 464 c183-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Mrs. Humble. The debate about...

David Drew | 464 c184WH (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend is talking about the biodynamic movement, which is very different from t...

Brian Iddon | 464 c185-8WH (Link to this contribution) I shall refer to that issue later. Organic food is described by the FSA as"““a holistic approach to...

Mark Williams | 464 c188WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the localist agenda is implicit in the organic debate and that su...

Brian Iddon | 464 c185WH (Link to this contribution) I shall say something about that later. A growing consciousness about the environment is fuelling s...

David Leslie Taylor | 464 c185WH (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge much of what my hon. Friend said in his usual rational and scientific way, but does he...

Evan Harris | 464 c195WH (Link to this contribution) From a sedentary position, the Minister says too often, but I can go in his place if he wishes. Min...

Roger Williams | 464 c195-7WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs. Humble. I congratulate the hon. Member...

Evan Harris | 464 c193-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure, Mrs. Humble, to speak under your chairmanship. I had not intended to speak but mer...

Phil Woolas | 464 c194WH (Link to this contribution) Too often.

Graham Stringer | 464 c202WH (Link to this contribution) I referred earlier to the Boarded Barns farm study, which compared organic farming, integrated farm ...

Phil Woolas | 464 c202-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am told that it is, but the general point that I wish to make is that the matter is linked to the ...

James Paice | 464 c199-201WH (Link to this contribution) I confess that I am not aware of that study and I shall look it up readily later. I am grateful to t...

Phil Woolas | 464 c201-2WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs. Humble, and to reply to this debate on...

James Paice | 464 c197-9WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to serve again under your chairmanship, Mrs. Humble. I want to congratulate the hon. Mem...

Brian Iddon | 464 c199WH (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware of a study carried out for the Department for Environment, Food and Rura...

Brian Iddon | 464 c188-9WH (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that carrots are a contentious issue with the Soil Association and with Prince Charles. ...

Graham Stringer | 464 c189-90WH (Link to this contribution) I would genuinely like to congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) ...

Evan Harris | 464 c190WH (Link to this contribution) May I support the hon. Gentleman in what he is saying? I remember a debate at the Royal Institution ...

Graham Stringer | 464 c191WH (Link to this contribution) I was really talking about the Soil Association’s inconsistent attitude. I do not think that the deb...

James Paice | 464 c191-2WH (Link to this contribution) Is not the hon. Gentleman’s last sentence the nub of the issue? Many plants in this world contain na...

Graham Stringer | 464 c192-3WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes two pertinent points—one about the testing of natural or synthetic chemical...

Graham Stringer | 464 c190WH (Link to this contribution) I could not agree with the hon. Gentleman more. Holden’s view is really an ““Animal Farm”” view of f...

David Leslie Taylor | 464 c190WH (Link to this contribution) A number of speakers have referred to the importance of taking an evidence-based approach. Does my h...

Graham Stringer | 464 c190-1WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a point about timing, and we all wish for things to happen more quickly. I do n...

David Drew | 464 c191WH (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with my hon. Friend about GMOs, as a rationalist view is emerging on the matter. On h...

Subjects

Organic farming

Organic food

Contains statistics

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