If the reason is that organic practices are better for the soil and the farm workers, someone with a limited budget should be asking "which pesticides are worst for farm workers? What crops are they used on?" and try to either avoid those products altogether or go organic for those specific things. If the main issue was toxins in what gets to the table, it would be more important to look at what's being fed to children.
Concretely: if it's about the flavor or nutritional profile of the crop, making cotton organic is irrelevant, because I'm not planning to eat my shirt. On the other hand, and very concretely, about the only thing my household is specifically and consistently buying organic is milk, because cattitude prefers the flavor of organic 2% milk to conventional 2% milk. I don't know what the underlying variables here are (we're in New York City, so New England or mid-Atlantic dairy farming practices).
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Date: 2012-06-15 08:10 pm (UTC)Concretely: if it's about the flavor or nutritional profile of the crop, making cotton organic is irrelevant, because I'm not planning to eat my shirt. On the other hand, and very concretely, about the only thing my household is specifically and consistently buying organic is milk, because