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Do they know that organic food uses pesticides? Worse ones, too...

• notadoc 9y ago
  Which pesticides do you refer to? I'd love to read and share exactly that sort of data.
  • fpgaminer 9y ago
    A quick Google finds this (I consider NPR to be at least a decent source): http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/06/18/137249264/organic-pesticides-not-an-oxymoron http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/06/18/13724926... That seems to cover the basics of the situation. The TL;DR is that an "organic" label just means the food was grown using only "organic" components. There are plenty of organic pesticides.
    • notadoc 9y ago
      Interesting read, thanks. I suspect the general need for pesticides and herbicides comes with large scale production, where manual efforts for weeding and pest control is inefficient.
    • tmaly 9y ago
      you have to also consider which organic standard. The ones in California and Oregon are much more strict than USDA organic