Whether organic is better and worth it are certainly fair, straightforward questions,
Better for what? is the all-important corollary to that question.
If the answer is “taste,” then the answer is, as I’ve suggested, very likely, at least in the case of produce—but not necessarily.
Meat is a harder call. Rosie was a tasty bird, yet, truth be told, not quite as tasty as Rocky, her bigger nonorganic brother. That’s probably because Rocky is an older chicken,
Better for what? If the answer is “for my health” the answer, again, is probably—but not automatically.
What I could prove, with the help of a mass spectrometer, is that it contained little or no pesticide residue—the traces of the carcinogens, neurotoxins, and endocrine disruptors now routinely found in conventional produce and meat. What I probably can’t prove is that the low levels of these toxins present in these foods will make us sick—
