> I deliberately avoid “organic” foods for a number of reasons...one being political/philosophical, another being economic.
That’s fine for you; and I used to share that opinion.
I thought I was allergic to tomatoes. if I ate tomatoes or tomato products I would be sick for a couple of days. I went about 5 or 6 years and did not eat a single tomato product not even catsup, because I thought I had a food allergy, then I read an article about how tomatoes had been engineered to resist something called white fly larva. I then skeptically sought out a source of non-GMO tomatoes and tried the experiment by eating some. Tomatoes are now back in my diet, as long as they are non-GMO. You have no idea how much I missed catsup.
If they engineered tomatoes to kill white fly larva, didn’t they consider that it might also be toxic to some humans?
I don’t go out of my way to eat organic, but I do seek out non-GMO now.