[smokeyj]

Organic foods for increased vitamins seems like an expensive alternative to vitamin supplements. But I feel like people who eat organic foods would rather not eat manufactured vitamin supplements, leaving the main benefit of organic food to be the fact that it's less processed and more "natural". I prefer to eat cows that don't eat cows, and chickens that don't eat chickens.

[a5seo]

>an expensive alternative to vitamin supplements

I'm not sure that's true, it depends on absorption.

It seems reasonable to assume that human bodies are built to extract nutrients from whole foods most efficiently.

[boon]

Chickens eat other chickens in the wild - what's wrong with that?

[ceejayoz]

I'd imagine it's a slightly smaller proportion of their diet than in an industrial feed lot.

[Variance]

The people who think that non-organic foods are low in vitamins are probably also likely to be afraid of far worse health issues that could potentially come from consuming the "chemicals". So while it certainly makes economic sense to take vitamin supplements like you described if non-organics are just lower in nutrition content, I think there's worry about worse negative health problems coming from eating non-organics.