Who else thinks its bad that we now pay a premium for organic food? I've just spoken to my mum who says that years ago organic food was cheap and the norm! Also I've just seen an advert for BUPA advertising clean wards! Are they saying NHS wards are dirty??
2006-07-26 09:47:16 · 5 answers · asked by Sunshine Smile 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
organic food is not the norm at the moment, it is a niche market, hence the price. BUt in any case we should all be paying more for all the food we buy, not to fund the already stinking rich supermarkets but to help support crippling farm businesses. In fact just don't buy food from supermarkets and do the world a favour. try farm shops they probably have organic as well.
2006-07-26 09:59:43 · answer #1 · answered by wave 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Some NHS wards are physically as well as biologically unclean. This is more to do with the fact that the cleaning contracts are now often outsourced to the cheapest cleaning firm that bids (their staff tend not to give a damn & aren't properly trained or paid), NHS hospitals have a much greater throughput of patients than private hospitals, and no one 'owns' each ward. The government did start a drive to recruit ward matrons (as they had in the good old clean days of the 1960's) to improve the situation, but such staff are now being made redundant due to recent NHS budget problems again.
2006-07-26 10:02:55 · answer #2 · answered by Quasimojo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i was a child organic was the norm but we just called it veg, less chemicals were used then but has we have gotten older they have "improved" the food that we eat with anitbiotics and other chemicals so that now that is the norm and we now have to pay more for what we already had.
its a weird world eh???????
I don't think that the NHS wards are dirty, i have had ot go into hospital for operations twice in the last eighteen months and the wards i were on were clean, i did not catch any bugs and the staff were brill.
2006-07-26 09:55:30 · answer #3 · answered by cross_sox 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is bad. However, economies of scale dictate that organic food by its very nature utliises more resources (area used, time to grow and tend, etc) than mass produced foods. The prices do seem to be dropping though, as more people demand organic more growers will produce it.
On your second point, unfortunately yes. In many cases NHS wards are dirty. But what can you do with a service that is underfunded and understaffed?
2006-07-26 09:57:09 · answer #4 · answered by btmduk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep sometimes wards can be dirty. Its a fact.
2006-07-26 09:55:19 · answer #5 · answered by wiz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋