Long live pesticides

There’s a lot of organic products available on the shelves I see. What I take as organic is basically food that wasn’t sprayed with chemicals to protect it against pesticides or the soil artificially treated to increase crop yield.

Now what puzzles me is what part about technological advancement do these people not understand! The average age of the human race has significantly increased due to increased sanitary and quality of living. This surely includes quality of food too!? I think the chemical treatment of food had a significant positive impact: food lasted longer and people came off healthier because of quality products. Surely that makes sense.

Now if we were to take this away, wouldn’t it cause some decline in health to us in some way? I’m not suggesting high toxin dosing of food, but complete removal of pesticides like they suggest? Hmmm…

I think most of these people are like the Amish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish) who refuse advancement in life in any way. What are all these hippies gonna do when one day everything has to be grown artificially? Wait for an apple to fall off a tree and then eat it?

I like controlled pesticides the way they are thank you. And it’s cheaper because of higher crop yield. Go have your worms!