I am very against organic food, but thats probably because I grew up a farm boy, producing food, and I have no reason to believe that the food we produced is any different than some organic stuff. Actually my dad gave me an article a couple years back about organic food, it said that there had never been a case where the application of chemicals, pesticides, fungicides, etc. to crops had ever cause the death of a person, whereas there were several confirmed cases of deaths after eating organic food that had been tainted by some kind of poisonous fungus or bug that would have normally been killed by a fungicide or pesticide. I also don't get the idea of not eating beef/pork/chicken that are antibiotic free...if I had a choice I would rather eat the meat from a healthy animal than one that has an infection that wasn't taken care of because of "antibiotic free". We never give any market animals an antibiotic within about 3 months of being market ready as it is, they don't need it, its when they're young that they do. I can't imagine how many calves die because they don't get a simple antibiotic to stave off pneumonia.
