But some organic foods are higher in nasty residues like salmonella and E. coli. I'll take my chances with the inorganic chemicals before I'll handle and eat food with manure on it.

One day I tried to find out what "organic fertilizer" actually is. The only info I could find on the Internet was a list published by some gov't department in Arkansas. The list, which included animal wastes and by-products of slaughtering, would turn your stomach.

When I checked again months later, even the Arkansas list was gone.
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A couple years ago, I took a friend to the "natural" foods supermarket. She had been in a rehab place for a long time and needed to stock up as she returned home. She filled a big grocery basket, but there was only one piece of meat (the most expensive food) in it. The rest was bread, flour, canned beans, etc.

The bill for that basket was either $240 or $270, I forget which. Ridiculous price-gouging for food which has no real benefit to offer. Please tell my why they charge MORE MONEY for food which supposedly is SIMPLER to produce. (I'll tell you why. They make more money on both ends.)

My newspaper tells me that the Whole Foods chain is sarcastically referred to as "Whole Paycheck" by people trying to make ends meet.