Egypt also provides equally sub-standard "organic" potatoes to the UK.

Yesterday I baked some organic sweet potatoes and ate them like apples for snacks.

But it's made with artisanal cheese, organic potatoes and the best onions.

By last year, Christopher Holmes, who farms organic potatoes in Maine, had established a Potato of the Month Club.

If the organic potatoes come from Egypt, and if cash-crop farming there is nudging its population closer to poverty, should we actually be eating them?

In my own country, Britain, you cannot buy organic potatoes because you could not spray them and could not keep the blight away from them.

There are, therefore, very few organic potatoes to be had.

Mr. Thulen sees a big market for organic potatoes.

But this is where pesticide residues reside as well, so seek out organic potatoes.

For those who wanted them there were hamburgers made from beef raised without antibiotics and synthetic hormones, and french fries cut from organic potatoes.