Something radical organic, vegetabl-ists won't tell you: Lettuce can kill!
As surely as spoiled chicken salad or an iffy prawn, dodgy lettuce will put you in the ground. Especially that organic, preservative-free crap.
I and 10 others around here fell afoul of an organic salad last Monday and we spent the past week decorating the local hospital with our colourful...er...phrases.
I've been a 'semi-organic' for yonks, though usually with meat and fish rather than veg. I think after the last week though, I shall
demand chemicals on my cauliflower!
Docs informed us that even when thouroughly washed, many "organic" veggies can still harbour various strains of e-coli and unpleasant, even deadly, fungal spores and bacteria. in the past these would have been killed by various chemical means.
Apparently medicos are seeing more and more cases of poisoning from bacterias and what-not that haven't been seen for 80 years. Almost all of which are directly attributable to "organic" food.
Every preservative and anti-biotic used in Australia on 'commercial' food is utterly benign (unless you are actually allergic to it). You are far more likely to suffer ill-effects from organic produce than regular (so we were told). To add to this, the effects from untreated produce are infinitely worse than anything you might encounter from a commercial carrot.
To add insult to injury, "organic" food has NO nutritional advantage. None. Zip. All you are doing is paying extra for dirty sprouts and the increased chance of fungal poisoning resulting in spasticity, blindness, liver damage, brain damage and/or death.
