[Martin]

This is a bit of a generalisation but organic foods do tend to contain lower levels of toxins yet contain the same nutritional levels, so in essence they are 'less bad' for you.

There are perfectly valid arguements both for and against wholesale organic farming ranging from biodiversity benefits to greater land use requirements so the organic arguement is far from clear cut.

Whilst for an overpopulated Earth an all organic approach may never be deliverable, I still tend to buy organic produce in preference to non-organic given the choice, much to my more frugal girlfriend's disgust!