faith nailed it...
OP is a paid disinformant in my opinion...
cause his point of view is very disinformed, and i cannot imagine any intelligent person who has actually had an organic garden could say things like this...
i will say it again..
it is labor intensive...
if you are putting more labor into it
it usually equates to paying more for hired help to hand cultivate the crop instead of paying for cheap pesticides...
i have spent many hours on a small plot...
i value my time spent
and if i were to equate that to money
to sell
i would out price any
whole or organic foods market
not only because of the
time
effort
and skill required of the job
but also the incredible quality
people who know how to love what they do
love where they spend their money as well
and it has value

the united states pays the least out of any other world body for food as compared to salary... it is only because of low quality processed foods... and now everyone seems to expect to pay less... just like with everything the cheap manufacturing produces, cheap throw away cars, cheap shoes you replace every year or every other, and the like, instead of paying the extra (money=time,effort,investment)and getting a quality product which not only outlives the cheaper version, but is of better quality...

people, please look carefully at how the discussion has progressed in this thread... think of how psychology works and how much money has been spent on paying really, really smart people to unravel the human psyche...