Plastic stops weeds, stops birds, is the skin of greenhouses - every step of growing seems to involve another damn square kilometer of plastic. A lot of it just degrades in to microplastics in the soil, too.
(My wife and I did a market-garden type smallholding for a while and it's damn near impossible to get away from plastic)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/06/07/729783773/or...
Whether you agree with the mission of organic agriculture or not, getting certified for it does come with a lot of expensive extra rules.
For all I know, the nicer looking produce gets slapped with an organic label and the less nice doesn’t, creating a visual illusion at the store. This is all ignoring the fact that there is no conclusive proof of “organic” being nutritionally superior.
People like the story of being “in the know” or “beating the system”, hence the utility of these labels. Another one I like is “A2 milk”.