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Pesticides are used on organic food too. Often they use much larger volumes of less effective pesticides to compensate.
by AngrySkillzz 10y ago
Pesticides 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...