Comprehension Passage

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

1. In these trying times, when buying ordinary foodstuff can burn a hole in our pockets, comes the news that can actually help us save money. According to a Stanford University study, there is no evidence to suggest that there are more nutritional benefits from expensive organic food than those grown by conventional methods.

2. The researchers claimed that there is no difference in protein and fat content between organic and conventional milk and the vitamin count is also the same in both types of milk. Though organic foods are not contaminated with pesticides, yet they are not 100% pesticides free either.

3. The study is not good news for people who are big in organic food. In India eating organic food is more of a style statement that is due to health worries. People who can, do indulge in organic eggs laid by 'happy hens' who are allowed to roam around freely in a carefully controlled environment, unlike unhappy hens who are kept in coops. Then some companies have installed music channels in their cowsheds and it is believed that milk from these sheds have more nutritional value. 

4. Why such pickiness about food? These days, the huge number of TV shows and articles provide bread and butter for food specialists. But instead of decoding food, it's source and what has gone into growing it, isn't it much better to enjoy what's on the plate? Although organic food production began as a superior alternative farming method outside the mainstream it eventually became clear that the regulations surrounding organic food do not address more complex social concerns about family farms, farm worker wages, or farm size and at some places do little to address animal welfare. The initial approach of small family farms and the humane treatment of animals is fast receding into the background.

The phrase 'can burn a hole in our pocket' means : 

1
it refers to the fashion of wearing torn clothes. 
2
it can be afforded even by poor people.
3
proves to be very expensive.
4
forces poor people to wear clothes withh holes in it.

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