Prince Charles has avoided suggesting that all farmers should go organic but he has provided some clarification of the muddy term "sustainable". He has evidence that, at least in Merry Olde, organic farming is the most sustainable system in the long term and believes it is "the most effective system of applying what I thought to be principles of sustainable agriculture."

Here's a nice quote to ponder from one of his speeches this month: "Slow Food, as you well know, is traditional local food. Needless to say, it is also crucially important that this food is grown sustainably and, very often, this will mean that it is grown organically."We like that -- very often.