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...and a strange, unearned trust placed in those selling "organic" products. Why is it "strange and unearned"? In many states / countries there are specific r
by kafkaesq 10y ago
...and a strange, unearned trust placed in those selling "organic" products.
Why is it "strange and unearned"? In many states / countries there are specific regulations that qualify what can be labelled "organic" or not (having to do largely with whether certain classes of pesticides or fertilizer were used in their production or not, for example).
Are you saying that pesticides in the food chain are complete red herring, and that any concern about them is "strange and unearned"? I'm not sure I quite follow you, actually.
- AngrySkillzz 10y agoPesticides are used on organic food too. Often they use much larger volumes of less effective pesticides to compensate.
- a_bonobo 10y agoThe non-use of pesticides can be a problem too - there was an outbreak of a dangerous E. coli strain in Germany 2011 due to a contaminated organic farm. (Interestingly, the E. coli in question had acquired a few extra genes encoding for the toxin from another E. coli strain, natural GM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_o...
- kafkaesq 10y agoJust because the outbreak occurred on an organic farm... doesn't mean it was "caused by" the lack of pesticide use (or any other cultivation practices, per se). In fact, as to that particular outbreak, the very WP page you cite says: Using epidemiological methods the outbreaks in 2011 were traced to a shipment of seeds from Egypt that arrived in Germany in December 2009. Citing as a source: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-insight-whole-genome-sequencing-europe-coli.html http://phys.org/news/2012-02-insight-whole-genome-sequencing...