You remember that big anti-organic food study last week? Guess who funded it.

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45. Organics are important for reasons beyond the health benefits.

Organics provide fertilizer from a lot of sources that are currently land-filled, or in the case of feed lots; polluting the environment.

Converting to a more organic farming system would create a lot of local jobs in every community and play a role in reducing fuel consumption (due to the reduced need to transport the chemicals).

If a person spends a few moments researching the history of niacin (vitamin B3) they would know that even a small modification to farming methods can produce disastrous health results that are difficult to track.

Spraying chemicals that are known to kill insects onto food that humans will later consume should raise concerns for everyone. Especially when there is a good body of information indicating which insects eat other insects, and insect breeding is another industry that would spring up if there was more awareness of the hazards of pesticides.

The chemical industry is the primary industry that benefits from the kind of farming that we do now; they also happen to make a lot of money 'poisoning' us.

Why would anyone (not being compensated by the industry) be so vocally in support of current farming methods?