Healthy Eating Guidelines - Is Organic Best?

We live in a world that is increasingly dependent on pesticides and chemicals but is that the best way? What is the long term impact of those chemicals on our health and our lifestyle? Is organic better? More and more people have concerns about the ever increasing level of manmade chemical compounds in our everyday foods. All the various chemicals that are used on farms have an impact on the food we buy at our local supermarket or grocery store and in the luscious dishes we have when eating out. The constant need to drive prices down and production up puts enormous strains on the growers and farmers but is this the right way to go?