The producers of organic food use pesticides based on copper (which never goes away) and pyrethrum, which kills all insects, good and bad. They use the excuse that these are 'natural.' Whatever that means.

Once I searched the net trying to define 'organic fertilizer'. All I found was a publication from the State of Arkansas. The list of agricultural and livestock wastes which qualify as organic fertilizer was a shock.

No thanks. In my tiny garden I will sprinkle the nice clean grandules of fertilizer from a box. My plants have thrived for 30 years on them and no one has been sick.

Last year friends gave us an organic cantaloupe. My husband wouldn't touch it until I squirted anti-bacterial dish soap on it and scrubbed every millimeter of it with a brush. Rinsed it well, of course.

Once I went with a friend to Wild Oats. She had been away from home a long time and needed to restock. Her basket of food, which included only one piece of meat, cost over $240. It may have been $262. All this cost for food which supposedly LACKS expensive technologies.

What nonsense!