UK Environment Secretary - is he as smart as an organic turnip?

Rachel Dechenne's Comment:

David Milliband argued, in an interview with the Sunday Times published today, that organic produce is a life style choice with no hard evidence that it is healthier than conventional products. It suddenly made me wonder:" How does he got his now famous nickname 'Brains' while head of Tony Blair’s policy Unit?" I think that its brain is just another victim of the mass experiment in human nutrition to which Britain, like other western countries, has been subjected since the 60’.
Graham Harvey says in is new book ‘We want real food’: "Today we are all eating basic foods that have been stripped of the antioxidants, trace elements and essential fatty acids that once promoted good health."More, conventional farming are allowed to use 400 different chemicals as well as antibiotics without prescription while the highly regulated organic farming has only the choice between 4 natural fertilizers and needs doctor prescription for antibiotics. Isn't this pretty convincing of its healthier attributes?

As for the inexistent conclusive evidence 'Brains' is referring to, I suggest he starts nurturing his Oxford trained brain with the words of Nobel Prize-winner Alexus Carrel echoed by Charles Northern. Both spoke out against the poorly mineralized foods, resulting from the agricultural industrial revolution, as extremely damaging for the metabolism of plants, animals and man. Organic farming tends to reverse this by reinstoring the natural biodiversity of the environment it uses to produce its food. In the UK, the Medical Research Council has published 6 reports under the supervision of McCance and Widdowson over a 51 year period (between 1940 and 1991). The reports showed how mineral levels in many everyday items have fallen during a period of intensive chemical farming. The list of hard evidence goes on.
If he is still not satisfied, he could conduct its own experiment using Professor A.F.W. Brix's devise to measure the real food value of the fresh produce in modern supermarket. He would find that organic farmed food is much more likely than conventional ones to offer nutritional benefits. For instance, Research has shown last year the high level of omega3 naturally found in organic milk while conventional dairy products need to be artificially fortified to offer the 'same' kind of level. Of course they are then sold with a premium and under the name of functional food. These functional food are more expensive than organic and still under-regulated.
The real issue is one of power and food politics. Who is really benefiting from chemical intensive agriculture? Certainly not the consumers of these devitalized (or artificially re-vilalized industrially) produced food. Who then? Why , Mr. Brains, are you protecting their interests rather than those of the people you are supposed to represent?