• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    eat better organic food

    A slight nit-pick here, but when it comes to greenhouse gas impact, organic food may be worse. It’s certainly not clearly better.

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      1 year ago

      Almost definitely worse lol. We have the option to modify the genome of the plants we eat in order to make then better in every way and still some people are like “no that’s icky because science”.

        • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Usually people assume organic is the opposite of GMOs and stuff, but it’s also nonsense because they’d never drink water straight from a puddle, but want the shit on their crops to be as untreated as possible. Or well, sold to them that way, of course it’s not, it’s just fertilizer #2 instead of the - more efficient and hence indirectly better for the environment - fertilizer #1.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I’ve overheard that before too. If they would just change their words to “eat less meat” they’re be right, but to only say “organic” implies standard agriculture is worse, and it is not clearly so.

      We should eat less meat though.

      • Aux@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        We sholdn’t eat less meat, meat is pretty much zero emission and closed loop food production. We should more.