The trend towards buying organic food products over their conventional counterparts has become more popular with consumers in the last ten years. Corporations have pick up on this trend and have tried to cash in on this trend as much as possible by increasing selection of organic food products they offer in stores. We need to evaluate what the difference between organic food products and conventional food products are. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, USDA, organic produce is grown without pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, genetically modified organisms, or ionizing radiations and meat products do not contain antibiotics or growth hormones. Conventional food products are grown using these farming modifiers but are heavily regulated by the USDA. 

Due to the rise of the this trend, more studies about organic verse conventional food products were conducted to determine the difference between the two from a nutritional standpoint, a food safety standpoint and an environmental standpoint. The differences these studies have found and the differences in farming practices for organic and conventional food products causes large price difference between the two in market. Although the studies have concluded that there are positive benefits that organic foods provide, the benefits are not significant enough to justify the cost of these products verse buying conventional foods products. 

The first category to consider when comparing organic food products and conventional food products are their impacts on the environment. In the paper, written by Gabriel, Doreen, et al; they concluded that organic farming improved biodiversity by 30% compared to traditional conventional farming, but has a negative impact on crop yield thus they suggest that organic farming methods should primary used for low productivity landscapes, where crop yield differences are much lower. 

The second category to consider is the food nutrition. 

The third category to consider is food safety. 
