Organic is the most cost effective way of growing food, IF we factor in all the external costs of what we call conventional farming. These externalities include government subsides, top soil depletion, ground water contamination, and so on. We can extend the list above all the way down to the micro level in our bodies about the health of the food we eat. There is a silly but good short call the True Cost of Food. I have never fact check this but the general idea is right on the mark. http://www.sierraclub.org/truecostoffood/video/tcof_lo.mov
Organic is the most cost effective way of growing food, IF we factor in all the external costs of what we call conventional farming. These externalities include government subsides, top soil depletion, ground water contamination, and so on. We can extend the list above all the way down to the micro level in our bodies about the health of the food we eat. There is a silly but good short call the True Cost of Food. I have never fact check this but the general idea is right on the mark. http://www.sierraclub.org/truecostoffood/video/tcof_lo.mov