organic food

Taylor grew up there in Mullumbimby, a small hamlet in northern New South Wales, and a town she describes as “dirty hippie, no shoes, like antivax, organic food.”

For example, many Americans associate the word “organic” with safer and healthier products; a survey published by the International Food Information Council found that nearly half of Americans mistakenly believe organic food is produced without pesticides.

But organic food can be produced with organic pesticides, which Love says are sometimes more toxic and less effective than synthetic ones.

They are committed environmentalists, but a crisis in the organic food sector, known as “bio” in France, has added to their difficulties.

Several big supermarkets have dropped organic food.