Organic is Bad

In Ron Dudley's opinion piece, "Organics Will Never Feed Everybody", from the Wall Street Journal, the author en lights the problems with organic food farming and retail. He delves into the prices of organic and "normal" food, why farming organic foods is a waste of money, and states that most people can afford to eat organic foods instead of "normal" food.

Ron tries to convince using logic. he shows this here " sold organic corn for $15.02 per bushel while regular corn was priced at $7.02. Organic soybeans were $26.73 per bushel and regular soybeans were $14.30." on this segment he shows that organic food is 1.5 to 2 times as expensive than regular food. Thus convincing us that eating organic food on a regular basis like regular food we would be doubling our food expenses. So obviously we would not buy organic food, besides the point that people usually buy organic food for the label and not the price or taste.

Ron also uses emotion to change the inclination of the readers. " I can assure your readers that organic-produced foods are a niche market and not affordable by most of the world's population." he said that most people cant afford it yet the US has the biggest market for organic food. Making us, citizens of the US feel like, well, d*cks. While most of the people can afford organic food, we are walking around strutting in front of our "friends" showing off that we eat organic food.

I feel the author conveys the right message about organic food. I have tried organic milk and milk from and actual cow and they don't taste the same. I feel people have the need to purchase organic for the label and NOT the actual taste.