Budgeted organic foods!

Sigh.He lives in a country with public heathcare - which, for poor people over here in the US, is like the most fevered dream of paradise - and he'd rather turn to organic quackery for relief. Some people.

I've heard of that, that organic tomatoes for instance have something like double the lycopene; the suggestion is that tomatoes produce lycopene as a response either to nutrient stress or as a response to predation. And it may just be that they're using cultivars that naturally have more lycopene, simply because they're hardier.You see that a lot in organic crops; they're usually cultivars selected for hardiness, and a lot of that hardiness comes from natural pesticides.But they're no less dangerous from being "natural." Recently there was a recall of organic celery because it was so high in natural pesticides that people were getting rashes just from handling it. At any rate, you could simply buy lycopene supplements for what you'd wind up spending on organic fruit.

This is true. My position has changed from "organic foods provide no benefits over regular foods" to "organic foods don't provide nearly enough benefit over regular foods to justify the cost."But, yeah, evidence and all that.

There's no evidence of any health benefits from organic foods, and personally, I like my pesticides on the surface of my fruits and vegetables where I can wash them off, rather than expressed throughout the flesh of the plant, the way organic pesticides are.I prefer to expend money where it will make a meaningful change in the quality of my life. Organic foods don't do that at all.