Organic Foods Are Not Worth The Extra Cost

Have you ever seen an organic aisle at a store and wondered why it costs so much more? Organic foods are foods that met guidelines set by The U.S. Agriculture Department. Organic foods do not have pesticides or other fertilizers in them. Organic foods are not worthwhile because of expense and the lack of difference.

It has been argued that organic foods are worth the extra cost. According to David Lazarus, the author of passage one, “What you’re paying for, presumably, is a more healthful diet. That means to produce that hasn’t been drenched in pesticides, chicken, and beef that hasn’t been pumped full of antibiotics, milk with even more nutritional value.” However, the organic foods are not worth the extra cost. According to Lisa Herzig,

“The pesticide content will be higher with conventional produce, but it’s still at safe levels.” This supports the claim of organic foods not being worth the extra cost, Lisa Herzig says that just because something is marked organic does not mean that the conventional produce is bad for you. One of the two foods may be better for you, but the conventional produce will not hurt you because they have the legal amount of pesticides on them. The extra cost is not worth it when people cannot be hurt by the regular, marked down food price. Another example would be, according to Charles Benbrook, an agricultural economist at Washington State University in Pullman, “Every study reports dozens of results involving different nutrients. For some nutrients, organic might be higher. For other nutrients, conventional might be higher. And for a lot, there are no [real]differences,” This supports the claim of organic foods not being worth the cost put on them because Charles Benbrook explains that organic and conventional foods lack different nutrients

According to Lisa Herzig, an associate professor of nutrition at Fresno State, stated “. . .common sense suggests that consuming foods with fewer pesticides will be better for you—but not enough to justify paying significantly more.” This supports my claim of their not being any big differences because if they were to be dangerous levels of pesticide on the food Lisa, an expert, would tell people to pay the expense of the organic foods. Also, she is saying that the fewer pesticides are not enough to hurt you and the less pesticide on the organic foods may not do enough to help the person consuming the foods. Another example to support my claim is according to a 2012 study, a study about the differences between organic and conventional foods, states that “A 2012 study found no real difference between organic and conventional food in terms of nutrition. Its findings appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine.” This quote also supports my claim because the study shows there are no real differences. The nutrition of foods is basically the same meaning that no matter which one is consumed the same nutrients will be put into the body of the person who is eating it. There being no real differences in the two kinds of food means that the push on buying organic foods because the same thing, essentially, is being put