Fragrant natural skincare by Beyond Organic
The first thing I noticed when I tried the new Beyond Organic skincare range was the deliciously fresh fragrance that jumps out of every product as soon as you open the tin. With scents like mallow and Lady's Mantle, burdock and yarrow, these aren't smells you get to experience every day, and the quality is no disappointment either.
Unlike some paraben-free moisturisers, there's no chalkiness or stickiness to the moisturisers, which are super-smooth and blend into the skin like a dream. The replenishing hand cream (£11.25) is great for overworked hands, and worked wonders on my dry and cracked fingers. Another favourite of mine from the range I tried is the exceptionally light moisturising day cream (£14.50), which quenches delicate facial skin without a hint of greasiness.
All products in this range are certified organic, free from parabens, petrochemicals, GM materials and artificial colours and fragrances. This makes it ideal for sensitive and reactive skins, so why not give it a try? You can buy all products online.
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Imagine waking up one day to learn they quit requiring urine and blood samples from athletes at the Olympics, and instead required only a dated and signed list of all the things athletes ingested over the last four years in order to “prove” they weren’t using performance enhancing drugs. Well that’s how the organic industry runs.
There have been many news stories in North America that hint at trouble in the fledgling, “wholesome” organic industry. But when it comes to writing the story that will ‘blow the lid off’, no one seems interested.
Perhaps some journalists don’t believe what I’m saying; perhaps some don’t want to, preferring to leave their heads stuck in the sand. Whatever the explanation, you’re missing the “Insider” story of the decade.
Only Bill Alpert, Senior Editor at Barron’s, has had the guts to hit the nail on the head. I quote:
Even the most established of these movements, organic-food certification, fights internally about who is authentically organic. Many consumers think organic food has been tested for pesticides. But organic certifiers spend most of their time shuffling papers and auditing the files of farmers for records indicating that forbidden chemicals weren't used. Inspectors are typically free-lancers who receive a couple of hundred bucks for visiting a farm.
Mischa Popoff of British Columbia, Canada, was one of those inspectors. He visited hundreds of farms on behalf of organic certifiers and believes most of the farmers were credibly organic. But Popoff was frustrated when he'd see farms whose "organic" fields were as green and pest free as their conventional fields. One farmer's garage hid gallons of the herbicide Roundup. When Popoff made a fuss about these suspicious findings, he says he was blacklisted by some certification outfits.
Conscientious farmers go to a lot of trouble to be organic, so they worry about competing with cheaters who just want the price premiums that an organic label can command. Popoff argues that routine pesticide tests could catch cheaters, the way that drug tests snare doped athletes. But in the 1990s when the organic industry was helping to draft the federal law on organic labeling, the industry considered and rejected a requirement that organic food be residue-tested.
(Copyright (c) 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
Bill’s column from November of last year will go a long way to enlightening investors who might otherwise jump onto the organic bandwagon. But what about consumers at large? Don’t they deserve to know the truth? Here’s a more easily digestible link to a news story that appeared on the CBC National news: http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/environmentscience/certified_organic.html
Yes it’s true, consumers pay a premium for certified organic food which for all they know is complete hogwash. I support organics, but not the monumental bureaucratic system that impedes it. I’ve done some media interviews which I’d be happy to make available to you, and I also have a book coming out on this important topic. Please contact me if you’d like to do an interview.
Posted by: Mischa Popoff | March 11, 2008 12:38 AM
Imagine waking up one day to learn they quit requiring urine and blood samples from athletes at the Olympics, and instead required only a dated and signed list of all the things athletes ingested over the last four years in order to “prove” they weren’t using performance enhancing drugs. Well that’s how the organic industry runs.
There have been many news stories in North America that hint at trouble in the fledgling, “wholesome” organic industry. But when it comes to writing the story that will ‘blow the lid off’, no one seems interested.
Perhaps some journalists don’t believe what I’m saying; perhaps some don’t want to, preferring to leave their heads stuck in the sand. Whatever the explanation, you’re missing the “Insider” story of the decade.
Only Bill Alpert, Senior Editor at Barron’s, has had the guts to hit the nail on the head. I quote:
Even the most established of these movements, organic-food certification, fights internally about who is authentically organic. Many consumers think organic food has been tested for pesticides. But organic certifiers spend most of their time shuffling papers and auditing the files of farmers for records indicating that forbidden chemicals weren't used. Inspectors are typically free-lancers who receive a couple of hundred bucks for visiting a farm.
Mischa Popoff of British Columbia, Canada, was one of those inspectors. He visited hundreds of farms on behalf of organic certifiers and believes most of the farmers were credibly organic. But Popoff was frustrated when he'd see farms whose "organic" fields were as green and pest free as their conventional fields. One farmer's garage hid gallons of the herbicide Roundup. When Popoff made a fuss about these suspicious findings, he says he was blacklisted by some certification outfits.
Conscientious farmers go to a lot of trouble to be organic, so they worry about competing with cheaters who just want the price premiums that an organic label can command. Popoff argues that routine pesticide tests could catch cheaters, the way that drug tests snare doped athletes. But in the 1990s when the organic industry was helping to draft the federal law on organic labeling, the industry considered and rejected a requirement that organic food be residue-tested.
(Copyright (c) 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
Bill’s column from November of last year will go a long way to enlightening investors who might otherwise jump onto the organic bandwagon. But what about consumers at large? Don’t they deserve to know the truth? Here’s a more easily digestible link to a news story that appeared on the CBC National news: http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/environmentscience/certified_organic.html
Yes it’s true, consumers pay a premium for certified organic food which for all they know is complete hogwash. I support organics, but not the monumental bureaucratic system that impedes it. I’ve done some media interviews which I’d be happy to make available to you, and I also have a book coming out on this important topic. Please contact me if you’d like to do an interview.
Posted by: Mischa Popoff | March 11, 2008 12:39 AM
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