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Re:Think organic food is better for you, animals, and the pl... by Xeoncross on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:33AM (#17065863)
What are you talking about? Organic foods are an absence of herbicides, pesticides, and narcotics. It's not like you're choosing the lesser of two evils or something.
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Re:Think organic food is better for you, animals, and the pl... by WalterSear on Monday May 14, 2018 @11:27AM (#17066296)
Just your assumption, unfortunately.

> The pesticides that are allowed for organic food production are typically not manmade. They tend to have natural substances like soaps, lime sulfur and hydrogen peroxide as ingredients. Not all natural substances are allowed in organic agriculture; some chemicals like arsenic, strychnine and tobacco dust (nicotine sulfate) are prohibited.

http://npic.orst.edu/ingred/organic.html

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Re:Think organic food is better for you, animals, and the pl... by Xeoncross on Monday May 14, 2018 @11:41AM (#17066415)
Um, there is no assumption here. I guess I could have clarified "Organic foods are an absence of many herbicides, pesticides, and narcotics."

Non-organic simply has them all.

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Re:Think organic food is better for you, animals, and the pl... by halleym on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:53AM (#17066034)
Organic foods are an absence of specific herbicides, pesticides and narcotics; not all of them categorically.
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