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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by gruez on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:33AM (#28445363)
>Take chlorpyrifos[2]. It's pretty nasty. It requires no additional data to determine that, all else being equal, we'll be better off not consuming its residues on our food.

Can't you make the same argument with other organic but yucky stuff? eg.

>Take cow manure. It's pretty nasty. It requires no additional data to determine that, all else being equal, we'll be better off not consuming its residues on our food.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by gmac on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:49AM (#28445557)
From the Wikipedia page on chlorpyrifos: “Organizations such as PANNA and the NRDC state that chlorpyrifos meets the four criteria (persistence, bioaccumulation, long-range transport, and toxicity) in Annex D of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants”.

I don’t think cow manure meets any of those four criteria.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by gruez on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @11:12AM (#28445835)
>From the Wikipedia page on chlorpyrifos: “Organizations such as PANNA and the NRDC state that chlorpyrifos meets the four criteria (persistence, bioaccumulation, long-range transport, and toxicity) in Annex D of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants”.

But the parent poster explicitly mentioned that "it requires no additional data to determine that"? That sounds pretty closer to "chemicals are yucky", rather than "chemicals are bad and these studies show that" (what you're arguing for).

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