Pound a stake in, light it on fire, and call "organic" dead.

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Don't look at me with those sad "I want to spend every nickel you and I can obtain for this ambrosia" eyes.  As I said then, and will prove again and now with Stanford and again with the Berkly man, "organic" deserves quote, because it is no more so than any other fruits or vegetables (pick the cheaper and freshest, for quantity and quality, as I tried to teach you). h/t AOsH

As noted, the Berklyite suggests that 99% of pesticides are inherent to the fruit or vegetable, actually created by the food to defend itself, naturally.  Further, of nearly 250 studies on nutrition and lack of pathogens, "organic" food doesn't hold any advantage.  And beyond, the difference in pesticides on the various foods does not stand, with the added note that what is found on foods is naturally occurring.

Throw in that where organic foods are produced, women are children are left to the back-breaking drudgery of hand weeding.  Understand that once certified, having your crop "polluted" by a neighboring farm's use of anything or cross pollination doesn't invalidate a farmers certification.  Plus the fact that using animal manure, and other "organic" fertilizers, introduces e-coli and other pathogens right into "organic" food.  Add to that the fact that since "organic" produce and fruits produce less product per acre, they consume much more water (a truly rare and becoming rarer resource) per product.  Keep adding, I am positive there are things I am missing.  Then add in the additional cost out of the economy for no good reason, and you will find yourself exactly where I found myself after only a few months of research after being introduced to the poison pill that is "organics".  Then again, that it was mostly single women and metrosexuals at the farmers market...  That should have been enough of a clue, and actually was my first clue.

From a cook to the clueless.... if you want solid nutrition, should you even desire these... vegetable things... in your food, simply buy the freshest.  Price IS a consideration.  I don't know about you, but money doesn't grow, "organically" or not, on my trees.  I won't eschew "organic", if it is fresher and the same price, but like, yeah, that's ever happened.  If you want the best vegetables, grow your own.  You will know what was put on it (if not what is in it, as has been shown, fruits and vegetables produce their own toxins to protect themselves).

The thing about growing your own is two-fold.  First, it really may not pay if you have other salable skills.  Second, it will, when you are doing it, be at least a part time job.  But if you want to produce all your own vegetables, it will be more like a full time summer job.  Plus, it doesn't stop at planting, tending, and harvesting.  You then have to learn canning methods and obtain those tools and expendables.  Just understand that.  Further, you are on the hook if hail takes out your garden, bugs invade beyond your ability to control, or too much or little rain wipes out your food.  There is NO FREE LUNCH.  (For my part I will home garden if I can get up to speed, but not for reduced risk, or lower cost, more for prep and hobby.  Food risk is... probably not truly one of the risks you should greatly concern yourself with anyway.  It's the alien aimed meteors you have to watch for!)

The other thing is... don't worry so much.  Trust me, if it is your time to die, if that organic tofu and vegetable lunch you had doesn't choke you on the way down it will bubble into a toxic cloud and get you at a later date.  There is no such thing as a free lunch or immortality this go-around.  Besides, my guess is they will eventually understand, in truth, that a Snickers bar is better for you than current "health food".  Maybe they already know, but are stocking up for the run on them when the news finally hits the mainstream.  Eat, drink, do it in moderation, shut up.

Next, to kill the GM-food myth, then I will be... satisfied that politics is being shoved out of science.  Oh, never worry.  I do believe GM-foods need close examination, in a number of ways and on various fronts.  It is just that fraudulent science is currently hindering the correct... discussions.  Academia, even if this is true, that it is backing out of polemic "science", still has a long way to go.  *cough* evolution *cough*  There are many things that absolutely have to be shoved out and put down.  *cough* women's and ethnic studies *cough*  There are things probably trying to crop up now, expand, and such. *cough* Anthro Global Warming *cough*  Thankfully, as with "genetic foods", the cost is becoming unbearable in ever shrinking budgets, and as the actually worth of those shrinking budgets crashes (due to the very bubbles created by the poor judgment of academia, through becoming toxically polemic, coupled with a complete loss of moral and ethic teaching which used to be coupled to what was taught, I should add).

Who knows, school may eventually shrink to... reading, writing, and arithmetic, in a one room-for-all class.  Colleges may go back to actually teaching professions rightly and having a legitimate liberal arts program for the few cube-dwellers still needed for the stupid middle management stuff and so the rich brats can think they know something.  Though it would be good to keep sports, so the boys who have no other interest might be lulled into learning how to read and do a bit of math.  Hmm, and they could keep (reintroduce from what I have heard?) shop to actually teach something to some of the other recalcitrant boys (and home ec. for girls, again, to actually teach them what they should and need to know).

Economic collapse is... looking better and better.  If too there is a... calculus problem involved.  With everything racing to zero (no pun intended this time), will anything actually get to zero, and if so, which factor(s) go(es) to zero first?  These are vital questions, as they will shape the whole of the rebuilding, or destructive, nature of things to follow for decades, perhaps centuries.  While it looks like the work of man, I tell you, you know Whose hand guides all, you know what His anger can and has done.  Unless this is the end, I am thinking that He is being rather... generous.  He is doing things in steps, so that we may... choose our poison.  We will see.  But some of it, much of it, is left to us, even still. On the negative side, however, far too few seem to be taking the hint.