[AnimalMuppet]

My wife has a friend who is very into organic. She says that all those pesticides are not good for us, and she's probably right, at least to some degree.

But the thing is, famine is really not good for you. If pesticides prevent that (and, arguably, they have done pretty well at doing so), then they're better than the alternative of not using them.

Of course, the best alternative is "neither"...

[ambler0]

Of course eating non-organic produce is better than eating no produce at all. Eating only organic is a straw man position.

[AnimalMuppet]

For an individual, sure. For a society, no, that's not a strawman at all.

[walshemj]

some people are not old enough to remember the regular famines in India and Pakistan - obviated by engineered strains of rice