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The veal from Winter Tarn is not organic, though the farm is li- censed. The reason: Aireys, the abattoir Jeremy Jackson uses, is no longer licensed organic.


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licensed organic meat. The new edition, just out, includes only two. We wanted to tell this story, be- cause we think it’s important that you should know that this does not mean these farmers have abandoned their principles of sus- tainable farming, animal welfare


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ive years ago, the Orga- nic Cumbria leaflet listed nine farms producing


and care of the environment. The main reason these farms


have had to stop being licensed organic, is financial. Says Kate Gas- goyne at Cumbria Organics: ”One of the main challenges for these farms is the price of organic feed, which has almost doubled in the past five years.” If a farm grows its own organic feed, it remains inde- pendent of this pressure.


Issue 10 • May-June 2011


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