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Organic food can use organic pesticides.

• Ekaros 4mo ago
  Which might or might not be safer than synthetic ones. Fundamental job of pesticides and herbicides is to kill stuff. Just because it appears in nature does not mean it is safe.
  • woadwarrior01 4mo ago
    Do you realize that stimulants like caffeine and nicotine (also the supplement sulforaphane comes to mind) evolved in nature as pesticides?
  • RetroTechie 4mo ago
    True when talking health of the end consumers. But "organic" also targets soil health, biodiversity, animal well-being, and the environment in general. Some synthetic pesticides / herbicides / fungicides hardly break down in the environment. Which leads to accumulation of a cocktail of such chemicals in soil & ground/surface waters. Ultimately appearing everywhere in air, drinking water & food. Not unlike microplastics, PFAS etc. How this affects humans' health is largely unknown. Generally, chemicals produced by plants also break down naturally. So they don't accumulate in soils over time. So it's kind of "exclude nature as much as possible, cleanroom style" versus "work with nature to keep things in a healthy balance".