{"id":11034,"date":"2013-09-14T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11034"},"modified":"2013-09-14T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T08:16:08","slug":"food-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/food-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not subscribe<br \/>\nto a watering down of standards<br \/>\nI sat for many years<br \/>\non a committee so<br \/>\nI could have some input<br \/>\ninto maintaining the standards<br \/>\nfor very quickly<br \/>\nthat can in fact go<\/p>\n<p>corporate mainstream policy<br \/>\ncan ruin<br \/>\ntrue standards of honesty<br \/>\nand we<br \/>\nmust remain rigidly behind<br \/>\nthe organic and bio dynamic<br \/>\ncategory<\/p>\n<p>natural pure and other words<br \/>\nmean nothing<br \/>\nthey have been degraded<br \/>\nover the year<br \/>\nadvertisers have used<br \/>\nand abused these words<br \/>\nso calling food by these words<br \/>\nI do fear<\/p>\n<p>will not have the same impact<br \/>\nin reality<br \/>\nand without fear of reprisal<br \/>\nfrom the law<br \/>\npeople tend to wash over their<br \/>\nresponsibilities<br \/>\nand out of sight<br \/>\nsometimes they will ignore<\/p>\n<p>derogation always was a moot point<br \/>\nin my heart I never got my head<br \/>\naround the system really it was<br \/>\nnot for me<br \/>\nbut still it happened and it must be said<br \/>\nit probably helped some farmers<br \/>\nand processors that got themselves in trouble<br \/>\nbut I say<br \/>\na lot of them got there because<br \/>\nof ignorance<br \/>\nand ignorance should never save the day<\/p>\n<p>personally the corporate world<br \/>\ntried very hard<br \/>\nto change organic standards<br \/>\nso that they<br \/>\ncould carry on their profit growing<br \/>\nprocesses<br \/>\nbut for a reason we did save the day<\/p>\n<p>strict organic standards have to be<br \/>\napplied<br \/>\nthose who moan on money grounds<br \/>\nits sad<br \/>\nif you apply a principle then you must<br \/>\npay the price<br \/>\nif you regard a principle as crap<br \/>\nthen it ain&#8217;t nice<\/p>\n<p>to come up with a standard<br \/>\nwhere you have watered down<br \/>\nthe principles I am sorry<br \/>\nI am going to go to town<br \/>\non those of you who do this<br \/>\nI will never understand<br \/>\nthe selfishness that&#8217;s present<br \/>\nright across the land<\/p>\n<p>Public health is paramount<br \/>\nThe environment is too<br \/>\nAnimals health is paramount<br \/>\nin everything we do<br \/>\nany short cuts on this score<br \/>\nfor me must never be<br \/>\ngo organic or bio dynamic<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s the only way for me<\/p>\n<p>watering down the creditation<br \/>\nlong term is no use<br \/>\nkeep it strict and do it right<br \/>\nthere can be no abuse<br \/>\nof standards there is argument<br \/>\nbut standards must apply<br \/>\nprinciples are important<br \/>\nas I have tried to quantify<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not subscribe to a watering down of standards I sat for many years on a committee so I could have some input into maintaining the standards for very quickly that can in fact go corporate mainstream policy can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/food-standards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11035,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions\/11035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}