Organic Food: Not safer, better nutritionally, or likely produced by small, local farm, Robert Paarlberg argues in new book
“Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat” (Knopf). Excerpts https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/author-robert-paarlberg-argues-against-buying-organic/

“Consumers tend to favor organic food because they believe the advocates who claim it is safer and more nutritious to eat, but there is little or no scientific evidence to support these claims.”

“Others buy organic food because they assume it comes from farms that are smaller, more traditional, and more diverse, but this is not a safe assumption either. Most organic food on the market today comes from highly specialized, industrial-scale farms”

“Scientists like Fresco view the organic vision as fundamentally misguided because it depends on an ungrounded distinction between materials that come from nature versus those fabricated by human industry.”

“Quests for purity in food and farming are not as dangerous as they are in race or religion, but they are just as lacking in scientific justification, and the advocates can be just as exasperating. Calvin Trillin put it nicely: “The price of purity is purists.””