Organic food or Non-organic food?

As an organic food grower and advocate, I think the differences are pretty stark. I believe there was a poll recently that shows that a little over 70% of America's interested in going organic...so I don't think that a majority of us are ignorant or just unaware. I live in a big farming state, so I was surprised to find out that actually a majority of farms here are small-scale AND organic. The way they get around their food being "more expensive" is to sell locally =) and for the organic farmers themselves to look for bargains. For me, ebay is my best friend lol. And especially considering how fertilizers, gas, anti-biotics, and heavy equipment used in large scale industrial farming is now becoming heavily more expensive and hard to maintain (which in turn has hiked up all the prices for most foods in the grocery store and has led something of a revival for organic and local food in farmers' markets, flea markets, and in people's backyards...victory gardens)...I think the economic effect speaks for itself on the topic of "sustainability".

If you research information on conventional food whilst having an organic bias, you will invariably come across scary propaganda about conventional food. There is no scientific data that says organic is better. This is why they rely on emotional rather than scientific arguments in order to discredit conventional methods in support of what is essentially an environmentalist, therefore political, ideology. While I support the freedom of anyone to hold the views they wish, they are not entitled to their own facts. Organic farming is based on the premise that artificial fertilizers and pesticides are both dangerous and morally wrong. There is absolutely no evidence in support of this view, it is pure ideology. Environmentalists hold the equally confused view that the Earth is overcrowded and that sooner or later we will be unable to feed it's burgeoning population. Well, if this was the case, and it is not, then organic food would be the last way to do this, as the low yield levels would require vast areas of forest and jungle to be cleared for food production. The perceived wisdom is that we should stop eating meat as meat production requires far more land area than growing crops to be consumed directly. This is nothing more than the thin end of the wedge of collectivist coercion, as is the idea that we should all buy from small local farms in the name of so-called "sustainability". I couldn't read your article, BTW, I think you have to be subscribed.

I will choose an organic food because I know that is healthy to our body.