I try to stick to organic for the dirty dozen and I do opt for rBST/rBGH free dairy although not always organic. My grandfather, a long time dairyman, explained the hormone thing to me this way. It wasn't the hormones that worried him so much. It was the fact that using these hormones made the cows more prone to udder infections and so some dairys - not all, just some - opt to just keep all their cows on low dose antibiotics as a precaution. The antibiotics do get into the milk.

If I come across organic meat, I buy it, but I don't go out of my way. I'm trying to dramatically cut down on the meat in our diet anyway.

When I was in California, we ate mostly organic produce and meat because access was easy. Since we've moved to Pennsylvania it is a little harder, plus our budget is a little tighter. These days my focus has been more on eating locally rather than necessarily organic although they tend to go hand in hand.