I Would Not Pay Extra for Organic Produce

I started receiving Organic Gardening magazine when I was about 12. I thought that organic sounded good- it's touted as the "healthy" choice. I was 12, and I didn't have money to buy Miracle Grow or any other fertilizer. I could afford to compost our leftover vegetable peels and coffee grounds. It was a fun project, but I found that my plants did not produce much, and they were ugly and buggy. My mother informed me that the reason for chemical fertilizers was that people used to get sick from the moldy fruit and vegetables that were organically grown, and that farmers weren't able to produce much. The next year, I used Miracle Grow (I had babysitting money by then). What a difference! Big, beautiful tomatoes, cucumbers and squash, and lots of them. That sold me on the chemical benefits: more and better produce. I was also told by my sage mother that the chemicals would probably do more to preserve my body than moldy food. That's just an added benefit.

So, if you want to feed the world, go chemical. If you want to poison people naturally, go organic. Why would you pay extra money for less food and organic poisoning?