UK organic sector divided over poultry standards.(Soil Association on poultry industry)

Agra Europe, January, 2006

Senior members of the UK's Soil Association are threatening to break ranks with the organisation over its rules for organic egg and broiler production. The critics claim it is failing to meet the standards to which it should aspire, and more seriously, is deceiving the public.

The differences threaten to provoke a crisis in the UK's bestknown and largest organic body. In a workshop at the Soil Association's national conference last week there was open revolt.

Lawrence Woodward MBE, director of the Elm Farm Research Centre, Soil Association member and a leading organic luminary, told the workshop: "The Soil Association has to get honest. It is in danger of undermining its own principles.

"We're selling to the consumer as if we had already...

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