Reply #48: To add: many who claim they cannot afford organic eat out at restaurants, buy daily coffee, [View All]

[lindisfarne]

go to bars, albeit occasionally.

One does not have to eat organic (or locally grown) exclusively - in fact, this would be pretty near impossible for most.
Eating organic in season, choosing to avoid the dirty-dozen, and weighing the $ cost vs. the environmental & personal health costs, are good places to start.

I rarely eat out - I choose instead to buy more organic. Most restaurant food is not terribly healthy and frankly, I'm not too convinced the preparation is terribly sanitary.

I, for example, eat ketchup so rarely that I've stopped buying it. Organic ketchup is not too expensive, but I will use less than 1/8 of a bottle in a year or more. Instead, I just grab ketchup packets and use them at home. I guess I could coordinate with others, or buy organic ketchup, pour some out for my use, and give the rest to a relative, but I haven't done that. Maybe I will! But since I eat so little, the pesticide exposure is minimal. I worry about other larger exposures more.