Organic food often loses the price war argument in comparison to what is called "conventional" food. But, what does "conventional" mean?

Food called "conventional" is grown and processed with chemical fertilizers, antibiotics, hormones, toxic pesticides, sewage sludge, irradiation and genetic manipulation. Perhaps the price war argument should be reframed -- instead of comparing the price of organic food with "conventional" foods, instead compare organic food prices to the food price of toxic or poisonous food.

Besides the food safety dangers, there are additional costs consumers pay for "conventional" food. Estimates are that about half of all the food that U.S. citizens eat is processed. Soy, cotton, corn, rice and wheat are also the most subsidized crops in the U.S. Consumers pay for “cheap” food cheap when they pay their taxes. Taxpayers also pay to attempt to fix the chemical spills, cancer cases, injured farmworkers, injured citizens, polluted groundwater, trashed rivers, oceanic dead zones, contaminated wells, and toxified land that result from the toxins used to produce "conventional" food.