I don't buy organic, but what I grow has reduces chemicals, occasionally some trace elements for the soil, I am on sand and it all leaches away, and occasionally some bug spray. hmmm, everything I eat is organic, my body cannot absorb raw elements.

Any substance that kills, prevents, repels, or mitigates a pest is a pesticide. Look up FIFRA- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide ACT.

No, a flyswatter is not a pesticide.

also Organic tolerates Copper sulfate as a pesticide that is more toxic than glycophosphates
[geneticliteracyproject.org]

I agree. I feel like it's one of those ideas that looked good on paper, but that has really gotten out of control.

I have been in the food indystry for 35 years. I have been making a detailed study of how people eat based on economic stratification for the past 20. Organic in the supermarket sense means you as a consumer are paying 140% to 200% more for the exact same food produced in the same facilities.

Go to the market and compare a parent companies regular product and organic line and see it. There is no difference. There is no practical cooking difference.

My apologies for sounding like some tedious know it all.

I agree.

All "organic" means to me is higher prices.

"Natural" is not magic. Natural wants to kill you. Anthrax is natural. Small pox is natural. Malaria is natural. I agree with you.

are you basing all your beliefs on this one article? and mainstream media?