Would you pay a premium price for...

[DGuller]

Hell no.

There is no good evidence that consumption of organic food is beneficial to health in relation to nutrient content. Organic farming in general is a wasteful Western fetish that consumes more energy, water, and land than standard agriculture practices.

by farming as millions of people have done for thousands of years? weird. "The more you know" I guess.

People were also regularly starving for thousands of years.

[Monoriu]

The last thing I need is more nutrients 

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Hell no.

There is no good evidence that consumption of organic food is beneficial to health in relation to nutrient content. Organic farming in general is a wasteful Western fetish that consumes more energy, water, and land than standard agriculture practices.

by farming as millions of people have done for thousands of years? weird. "The more you know" I guess.

People were also regularly starving for thousands of years.

um yeah they were all starving 

Most people in the west eat processed food crap all day every day to start with. so it's a moot point.

but so a niche market exists? who cares.

[Siege]

Pedrito, next time name your fucking thread in a proper descriptive manner.

Do you have any idea how long it takes to load a page using this fucking iraqi ISP?

[Fate]

Hell no.

There is no good evidence that consumption of organic food is beneficial to health in relation to nutrient content. Organic farming in general is a wasteful Western fetish that consumes more energy, water, and land than standard agriculture practices.

by farming as millions of people have done for thousands of years? weird. "The more you know" I guess.

If humans farmed as wastefully as they did in 1000 AD, then there would not be enough food to support the population.

[Strix]

No. I like the theory but I think right now that people are just preying on the guilt of people to make money.

[Martinus]

No. I like the theory but I think right now that people are just preying on the guilt of people to make money.

Well, it answers a demand. The "feel good" factor is something that some people are willing to pay for - it's the matter of a personal cost-benefit balance.

After all, we pay for alcohol or computer games for the very same reason - to make us feel good.

[Sheilbh]

No. I like the theory but I think right now that people are just preying on the guilt of people to make money.

Doesn't that work more with things like Fair Trade than organic?  In my experience the fans of organic stuff are middle class foodies.  The same sort of people who have nor problem paying for their rodent shit coffee to be transported from Indonesia.  Not an environmental bunch.

Though I understand that the market for this is far less developed in the US.  I know that Whole Foods bought an organic supermarket chain in the UK and are now down to one store (though they say they're going to stick it out), they said that the UK market for this sort of thing was just another world than the American one.  Here you have Waitrose, M&S, a fair few local independents and, arguably, the Coop all vying for the same middle class market with the emphasis on very good ethical food.