Contrary to popular assumption, there have been no scientific studies concluding that industrial pesticides legally in use in the United States pose a significant health hazard [period]
That’s why they’re legal. You know what else kills bugs? Parsley. My girlfriend’s father uses it on his property all the time. Just because something kills bugs does not mean it kills people. If they did, we have government agencies to prevent that. DDT can not be used for that reason.
You have to wash food anyway because it grows in the dirt.
To grow food organically would cause billions of people around the world to starve. It would require natural rainfall, unengineered seeds (though that depends on what you call engineering, since every piece of vegetation farmed in the world has been engineered), and billions of pounds of cow manure.
We used to farm organically in North America. We also used to starve in times of famine, like so many other places in the world do today.
Oh, and for the Global Warming people, please be aware that organic farming requires cow crap, and cow farts produce more methane than every car in the world as of right now. To produce enough cow crap to fertilize the amount of food we would need to not starve, we would have to increase the amount of cow crap.
You take a guess at how much cow manure we would need and how much methane that would produce.
I guess that means Global Warming is Organic, too!
PS: Also, they aren’t more “nutritious”, and are in fact less reliable because nutrition depends heavily on the conditions the food grew in—which can not be kept constant in organic farming methods.