Re:De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
by driverdan on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:20PM
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Organic food is treated with pesticides and herbicides too. There's a limited list of allowed chemicals, some of which are much worse than glycophosphate.
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Re:De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
by barrkel on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @12:14AM
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To be sure we're all on the same page, there are differences in organic regulation in the US vs the EU. I don't know much about the US situation, but an outline of EU general regulations for organic plants is https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/organic/eu-policy/eu-rules-... :
> Basic substances allowed in organic agriculture comply with two criteria: i) they are of vegetable or animal origin ii) they are considered to be "foodstuff"
Re:De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
by icebraining on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:21AM
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That's not true, though, there are authorized exceptions, like copper. See Annex II, table 3: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=uriserv%...