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Re:De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds by daveFNbuck on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:23PM (#17184544)
No, I mean that the chemicals used in organic farming to kill living things are more harmful to humans than glyphosate is.
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Re:De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds by hutzlibu on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:41PM (#17184609)
The (small) organic farmers I know dont use pesticides at all. And as far as I know, here in europe they would not be allowed to use anything realy toxic, when they want to have the organic label.

So things are different in the US then? Or also for europe? sources please.

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Re:De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @11:01PM (#17184708)
> The (small) organic farmers I know dont use pesticides at all.

They aren't representative of the bulk of organic food production. Overall, organic food production is, like non-organic food production, dominated by large, industrial agriculture concerns that do use pesticides.

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Re:De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds by sampo on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @11:26PM (#17184823)
Here's a list of 12 chemicals approved for use in organic farming:

https://risk-monger.com/2016/04/13/the-risk-mongers-dirty-do...

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Re:De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds by barrkel on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @12:08AM (#17184997)
That site believes organic farming is a hoax. It also also seems to be mixing up data about US regulation and UK opinion (and thus EU regulation). An intro to EU regulation for organic plant farming is https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/organic/eu-policy/eu-rules-...
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