I recently went to a lecture on grape/vineyard production and someone asked a question about organic.
The guy giving the lecture said “organic” is just a label to make the consumer feel good, and that’s it.
He went on to say that food production in the US is so tightly control there is nothing that is not technically organic but most people don’t want to go through the process of applying for the certificate because it cost so much.
So that’s one/his opinion, I am not a farmer so I can’t say for sure but it sounded reasonable.
Well, most regular supermarket vegetables are subsidized by illegal immigrant labor. People are angry about paying a tiny bit more for vegetables, but then they don’t like illegal immigrants, which they are causing.