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RE: Organic Doesn't Always Mean Pesticide-Free

in #health8 years ago

Unfortunately I have to disagree here. Been living on a farm (first time) for over a year on an organic farm. The farm has been in the process of being a certified organic farm. The paperwork and red tape to achieve said certificate is delayed by the U.S.gov.
If a farmer who has been certified is caught using pesticides other than organic, they loose their certification. (as well they should).
Farmers who have property next to each other, have issues as 1 farmer maybe organic and the other not. When the one farmer sprays it can float on the air and spread to another property. (This is where I beileve we see issues in the news about it.) Your charts are a bit old in date but at least your bringing some data important data to light.

I think the real issue as that we have to label our food "organic" at all. It's the food that is sprayed that should be "labeled" and be more expensive.

Yet you grow something naturally without pesticides and it has to labeled and you are charged more for it.
Why do we not turn our city parks of the planet into "organic" food forests for everyone? Cure hunger feed the homeless?

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, 1826:
"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." [Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are].

Are there some pesticides on organic foods that make it to market: 100%
Is it the farmers fault? I'm going to say that a very very small amount of farmers who claim to be organic are lying: Definite possibilty
So who's to really blame? Thank Monsato and the U.S.A....

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did you even read the post?....

I mentioned that there are different types of organic farmers and there are those who don't use any pesticides or fungicides etc. But there are still many "organic farms" that do use organic/natural pesticides.

Organic doesn't always mean pesticide free.. that's just a fact.

did you read my reply... i agreed with you on some points. What I am disagreeing with this post about, when certain but not all the facts are presented. No mention of Monsato or the possibility of how organic farms might become tainted with pesticides. That's all nothing more.

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