"Why buy organic?

Organic agriculture is an ecological production management system that promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. It is based on minimal use of off-farm inputs and on management practices that restore, maintain and enhance ecological harmony. Organic food handlers, processors and retailers adhere to standards that maintain the integrity of organic agricultural products. The primary goal of organic agriculture is to optimize the health and productivity of interdependent communities of soil life, plants, animals and people.

Organic agriculture does not allow the use of synthetic pesticides, including fungicides, insecticides, rodenticides and wood preservatives; synthetic fertilizers; materials and products produced from genetic engineering; sewage sludge; synthetic growth regulators (hormones); synthetic veterinary drugs, including antibiotics and parasiticides; irradiation; synthetic product-processing substances, aids and ingredients, and additions to food including sulphates, nitrates and nitrites. In production equipment, packaging materials and storage containers, or bins that contain a synthetic fungicide, preservative or fumigant are not allowed.

What's the difference between organic and natural?

Organic products as stated above are user friendly in every sense. Their production is strictly controlled and must pass stringent testing. Natural products can still contain chemical enhancers, preservatives, fertilizers, and pesticides. Production of natural products is not controlled."

~quoted directly from Organics To You website