Minitel's survey involved 1, 000 adults who were questioned about their thoughts on organic produce.
Minitel inevitably proved a dead end, and France remains a laggard in the global internet race.
But France can be an insular nation, and Minitel never really spread anywhere else.
ENGADGET: Minitel to be shut down tomorrow: France bids adieu to the internet's precursor
But he added that the French Minitel system might be skewing the results of the survey.
Indeed, Minitel is now proving a barrier to the take-up of Internet banking.
It took off anyway, and soon faux-newspaper companies sprung up everywhere for the not-so-secret purpose of delivering paid Minitel services.
ENGADGET: Minitel to be shut down tomorrow: France bids adieu to the internet's precursor
The grand-daddy of Internet services is Minitel, the ubiquitous on-line data service created by France Telecom (an arm of the government) in 1978-82.
This experience with Minitel had led many traditional retailers to move to the web quicker than their counterparts in the UK he added.
Three decades ago, the French government developed Minitel, a national communications network that allowed users to send messages, book train reservations and so on.
"French e-commerce is totally dominated by Minitel transactions, " said Mr Moscovici.
In France, for instance, Minitel, the telephone-based interactive system, allowed customers to bank online from the early 1980s, a decade before the first American pioneers.
In France in the mid-1980s, the online Minitel Rose services gave the French a new opportunity to talk away the evenings through their little beige videotex terminals.
Minitel is an electronic phone book most French have that can be used to buy anything that can be found online and has been used for around 20 years.
Why does France, the land of Pascal and Descartes, home to top nuclear physicists and aviation engineers--the birthplace of the World Wide Web's precursor, Minitel--lag little Israel in technology entrepreneurship?
While organic food is likely to remain popular, Minitel believes in the future it will be bought by a core number of consumers opposed to over-production and the use of pesticides.
France has that tradition, and for many years it has also had the Minitel: a once-advanced interactive screen system run by France Telecom, which even now supplies a lot of information, though it is less used for actual sales.
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