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A farmer friend of mine opines: "organic just means bugs have crawled over it before you eat it" The rise of veganism, mostly on ethical grounds, shows that nu
by marcus_holmes 7y ago
A farmer friend of mine opines: "organic just means bugs have crawled over it before you eat it"
The rise of veganism, mostly on ethical grounds, shows that nutritional equivalence may in fact be a minority concern, and that the ethics of "cruelty-free" eating supercede all nutritional concerns.
- ImprovedSilence 7y agoI’m not big on organic produce per se, but the other side of that argument would be non-organic just means your food has been lathered in chemicals that the insecticide industry puts a lot of money into “proving” isn’t carcinogenic and destroying the food chain in other ways. It’s easy to see bugs, it’s not so easy to see or ever know the externalities of invisible chemicals.
- jgrin 7y agoPut another way, “organic means a bug was able to crawl over your food without dying”.
- qplex 7y agoIf the bugs eat the crops, there isnt any crawled over food left.
- marcus_holmes 7y agoI like that. I'll tell him when I see him next :)