The concerns that WalMart might drive down the standards of organic foods and that it might force farmers into lower profits are legitimate, but it would great if WalMart did lower prices on organic produce and make them more affordable to a larger percent of the population. Healthy food shouldn't just be for the elite.

The move into organic produce seems to have already happened in the major supermarket retailors in England, where the requirements for organic food are much higher. Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys - they all have their own store brands of organic produce, making organics widely available and more competitively priced. Sainsburys is actually looking to buy an island in the Carribean to devote to organic growing. If WalMart didn't go into organics, some other major retailor would.