Stomach of Dead Whale Contained 'Nothing but Nonstop Plastic'

Re:Stomach of Dead Whale Contained 'Nothing but Nonstop Plas... by fucking_tragedy on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:24AM (#19431067)

Organic according the USDA means that you use manure to fertilize instead of biosolids and you use something like copper-based pesticides instead of glyphosate.

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Re:Stomach of Dead Whale Contained 'Nothing but Nonstop Plas... by mcv on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:10AM (#19431508)

I don't know enough about agriculture to understand what that means, but I have heard that the US uses a different, presumably lower, standard for organic crops than the EU does.

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Re:Stomach of Dead Whale Contained 'Nothing but Nonstop Plas... by fucking_tragedy on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:05PM (#19432118)

> I don't know enough about agriculture to understand what that means, but I have heard that the US uses a different, presumably lower, standard for organic crops than the EU does.

It means exactly what you heard. The USDA Organic label doesn't mean that organic crops are sustainable. The organic label doesn't address problems associated with commercial agriculture: monocultures, wide-spread use of pesticides, fertilizer run-off into streams/rivers/ponds/lakes causing them to become hypoxic, destruction of wetlands to create arable land etc.

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