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Re:Pesticide residues could negate the health benefits of fr... by SkyPuncher on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:58PM (#31494616)
Everything is a tradeoff. It's very easy to label things as waste in isolation.

The reality is pesticides and other crop technologies substantially increase efficiency of the land we're using. This means per capita: we're using less land (more back to nature), losing less crop (less fuel/maintenance wasted), and requiring an increasingly smaller percentage of the population to tend to crops.

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Re:Pesticide residues could negate the health benefits of fr... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:40PM (#31495164)
No, absolutely not everything is a tradeoff, many things like eating meat or going to a casino are a total waste of resources
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Re:Pesticide residues could negate the health benefits of fr... by gruez on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @02:48PM (#31496019)
>many things like eating meat

So don't ever eat out or make anything nice? Do you only eat rice and beans?

> or going to a casino are a total waste of resources

I broadly bucket expenses like that as "entertainment", which I guess isn't directly productive, but at the same time is arguably appreciated by the people who enjoy it. Hacker news arguably falls under this, mind you. There's a non-negligible amount of resources (server costs, paid moderator(s), and opportunity costs of all the participants) that's spent on it. So if you really want to put your money where your mouth is, you'd get off hn ;)

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Re:Pesticide residues could negate the health benefits of fr... by aaaaaaaaaaab on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @02:19PM (#31495662)
Yeah well, not sure about that meat thing buddy, not sure...
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Re:Pesticide residues could negate the health benefits of fr... by mikkelam on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:36AM (#31504330)
Other than taste and perhaps vitamins, what other good things do you get from the murdering of animals?

It definitely is a "waste" of resources, when looking at it from a rational perspective. Humans like to enjoy life though.

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Re:Pesticide residues could negate the health benefits of fr... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @02:48PM (#31496021)
don't get me wrong, I love my steak and burger, but there are people who never eat meat and manage to built enough muscle to compete in the olympics.
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