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I'm curious, can you link to any details of this?

• kickout 4y ago
  Pesticide use in conventional system can use synthetic chemistries whereas organic can only use 'natural' formulations. Thus, it is extremely difficult to compare apples to apples and most studies are flawed. Because the 'natural' formulation aren't as effective (usually), this needs to higher nominal rates. Again, it's very dicey comparison. I'm not advocating convention > organic, but feel the need to pushback on people that think organic > conventional
• kickout 4y ago
  This article (if read completely) highlights the extreme lack of data on this subject and mostly does a good job explaining how each metric is 'loaded' (toxicity, nominal application amounts, off-target movements, etc.) This is a very grey subject and it should be debated as such. ETA: link, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25502-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25502-w