Organic does not mean pesticide free. It just means they use so called ‘organic pesticides’ which are just as bad or worse, but they’re ‘naturally derived’ which sounds better to some people. It’s marketing BS. Any agricultural practice at scale uses pesticides and all produce should be washed before consumption.
Enjoy your food with lots of pesticides then. https://www.foodwatch.org/en/most-supermarkets-lack-a-coherent-strategy-to-reduce-pesticides
Organic does not mean pesticide free. It just means they use so called ‘organic pesticides’ which are just as bad or worse, but they’re ‘naturally derived’ which sounds better to some people. It’s marketing BS. Any agricultural practice at scale uses pesticides and all produce should be washed before consumption.
The “organic” Rotenone is a good example.
It’s souch better for you except for the strong link to causing Parkinson’s disease at low concentrations.
They also rely on extensive application of Pyrethrin and Spinosads. Both are broad spectrum insect killers who wipe out beneficial insects.
Read my link. Organic food is full of pesticides as well.
But they’re organic pesticides. /s
I’ve no idea if that’s even a thing. Just felt the joke was there.
They are, and the most common ones are vastly more dangerous to humans, and animals, than the most common non-organic ones.
Dimethyl Cadmium is organic. :)
I’m pretty sure powdered copper is still the go-to for grape vineyards.
That’s a good deal safer than Dimethyl Cadmium. And it’s not organic :)
They go well with my credit card microplastics