Children fed organic diets have a much lower chance of developing cancer. Once fertile soil has blown and washed away. Worms and micro-organisms that once thrived throughout the world's soil are dead. Healthy, organic, living soil has been eradicated by the megatons, washed down river to become toxic silt, eventually poisoning the ocean as well. And yet crop dusters and combines still swarm over the fields pouring fertilizer, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and a whole range of toxic chemicals that the Monsantos and Duponts of the world have spent years and billions of dollars convincing farmers to use.
Organic food is healthier.
When I was running my old organic gardening site, I would constantly receive mail from people who argue that organic food is not healthier for people, and therefore is no big deal. I never understood this logic. Organic food, according a whole host of scientists, does have nutritional advantages over the chemically grown kinds. Organic Gardening Magazine has quoted a wide range of scientific evidence suggesting that fruits and vegetables grown using manure as fertilizer grow better than those grown in chemically based NKP fertilizers. Also, healthy soil contains vitamin B-12, which shows up in higher levels in organically grown food.