If you’re an American reading this, the odds say you suffer from chronic disease — 60 percent of U.S. adults have at least one chronic disease, and 40 percent have two or more. Heart disease, cancer and diabetes are the leading drivers of the nation's $3.8 trillion in annual healthcare costs.

The worst part? We’re doing it by eating food that’s bad for us. We’re eating ourselves to death.

And it’s not just how much we eat, or our addictive taste for ultra-processed foods. It’s the way we are growing our food. If we really want to turn this mess around and lower health care costs and the prices of groceries, we have to eat more organic foods grown on American Farmland. And we have to use fewer pesticides — a lot less.

U.S. organically grown food demand is soaring, with double-digit growth since 2000, reaching a record $70 billion in 2023. Traditional grocery stores like Walmart, Costco and HEB now sell more organic foods than natural food stores do.

Hippies in San Francisco aren’t driving this trend — moms and dads in Chevrolets are. They want the apples in their apple........

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