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Honest question: Would this type of production be considered organic? There's no pesticides and such, but it's also not quite "natural".
by Swizec 10y ago
Honest question: Would this type of production be considered organic? There's no pesticides and such, but it's also not quite "natural".
- 0xcde4c3db 10y agoI think it depends on which definition one subscribes to. Broadly speaking, there are two major lenses through which "organic" is viewed: 1) Focuses on holistic management, rejects intensive injection of industrial inputs into the farm/garden, and emphasizes applications of emergent activity of native species rather than aggressive "pest control". 2) Focuses on keeping "unnatural" chemicals or genes out of / off of the food. I think this approach would tend to look organic under lens #2 but not lens #1. Various definitions of "organic" lend different weights to them and introduce other considerations, though.