News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Study finds organic food no more nutritive than non-organic by Turing_Machine on Monday September 03, 2012 @08:09PM (#4472422)
It's not that pesticides sanitize the food.

It's that chemical fertilizers don't potentially introduce disease organisms into the field the way that manure does.

Re:Study finds organic food no more nutritive than non-organic by ars on Monday September 03, 2012 @09:35PM (#4472656)
Properly processed manure does not do that. Compost it first at a high temperature, then mix it into the soil over the winter.

You don't just take fresh manure that throw it on the field.