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But the article also quoted the view of the policy director of the Soil Association, Lord Melchett, that the FSA had " jumped the gun " by " preempting " another review of the same topic being conducted for the European Union. Alongside a tabular presentation of the FSA's facts and figures, there were short separate pieces on wider aspects of the subject. One quoted an employee of an organic food company who cited taste, pesticides and the ethics of animal husbandry as reasons for choosing organic food. " This study does not mean people should not eat organic food. What it shows is that there is little, if any, nutritional difference between organic and conventionally produced food. " Surprisingly, the Daily Express (30 July) offered the most robust positive presentation. Headed ORGANIC FOOD NO HEALTHIER – OFFICIAL, its page-1 curtain-raiser began: " Eating organic food in the belief that it is good for your health is a waste of money, new research shows. Buying organic costs families 70 per cent more than standard groceries. But shoppers filling their baskets with organic fruit, veg, milk, eggs and meat, thinking that they are packed with more nutritional goodness, are wrong. The FSA has concluded that there are no health benefits in going organic. " Inside the paper was a detailed report headed " The great organic myth " , accompanied by an invitation to readers to respond to the question " Is organic food just a rip-off? ". Finally, beneath another header stating " Organic is not the answer " , the Daily Express underlined its own position (and no doubt angered some readers) in a three-sentence editorial: " Organic food is no healthier than any other food, says an authoritative new report. A myth debunked, but will it stop people feeling a waft of virtuousness as they pay that bit extra? We suspect not. " The most sceptical view of the FSA report was in The Guardian (30 July), which emphasised at the very outset that " experts and organic food campaigners " had questioned its conclusions. The principal critic quoted was Melchett, who insisted that the report " doesn't say organic food is not healthier, just that, according to the criteria they have adopted, there's no proof that it is. " But The Guardian gave the last word to Gill Fine, the FSA's director of consumer choice: " This …