Organic plant foods generally contain much less (or no) synthetic pesticides. But…
- They’re often sprayed with copper sulfate and some pesticides authorized for organic products.
- Organic farmers use heat and fire to destroy weeds and they often keep big piles of compost which heat up by fermenting and sun exposure.
- They use manure of animals fed with heated food, which may well be worse than chemical fertilizers.
- Organic foods are expensive.
- The choice range of organic foods is generally limited.
In France, I bought my plant foods from an organic shop selling good quality and tasty products not much more expensive than non-organic. Moreover, they often gave me overripe fruits and unsold vegetables from the previous week, for free.
But here, organic fruits and veggies are twice or even 3 times the price of others. I prefer to buy very cheap and good plant foods from saturday’s farmers’ market, preferably the smallest, wildest and imperfect looking fruits. I also found an abandoned orchard with a loquat tree, a few apples trees and about a hundred pear trees loaded with millions of small pears.

But as I have plenty other foods, I don’t eat many pears or apples.