Reason #253 to Buy Organic

While I do not whole-heartedly believe in the perfect consumer democracy whereby the consumers vote with their dollars to enact change, I do think it is wise to use our increasingly worthless dollars to buy organic products.

If an average citizen (or more appropriately a 'consumer' these days) wanted to plant a garden s/he would probably need to acquire seeds. The seeds could be a) bought from a seed company or b) taken free from the produce s/he already uses on a daily basis.

If our average citizen chose option 'b' chances are the seeds would either die before germination or mature as a diseased and unfruitful plant. 

The reason: the species used for most commercial agriculture is either bred for specific traits (size, resistance to pesticides, resistance to herbicides, time until spoilage etc.) or genetically modified with the same traits. Therefore, when the seeds are taken and grown in a simple setting such as the garden of our average citizen where no chemicals are dumped on the plant to protect it from disease and insects, the plant cannot survive.

Organic produce, on the other hand, legally cannot be grown with such chemicals and therefore must be naturally resistant to diseases and alternative methods must be employed for pest control. All the seeds from organic produce will work wonderfully in our average citizen's garden.