is organic a meme?

>>9234620
Organic food is not sprayed with glyphosate aka round up... Also tends to come from a more competent farmer. Best is to grow your own but local, fresh, organic, biodiverse, produce is pretty awesome.

Organic farmers actually give a fuck about you.

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>>9234620
if you dont trust the label and the agencies that give the certification then it's pretty pointless to convince you

the only for you to be absolutely sure is to meet your farmers IRL or become one yourself

>>9234620
Yes it's a meme. More often than not they just slam the seal on for sales because it's cool now. However there are organic farms and farmers out there that use natural pesticides and the like but it's been shown that organic farms are actually more harmful than your typical one because so much extra land is needed to produce the same amount as their non organic competitors, and that's if you ignore the fact that one of the most common organic pesticides is actually very toxic. (And before you ask me to post sources fucking stop lazing around and search em up yourselves)

non organic food..... salt???

>>9235042
Basically got the right idea

Heres some excerpts with sources from a paper I co-wrote. It's a politically neutral paper and observes GMO as a tool, not a boogieman. TLDR not anti or pro gmo.

>According to USDA standards for organic agriculture, seeds or other substances derived through GM technology are not allowed in organic production

Source: Kailey, B. (2015, October 17). What are GM crops? Journal - Advocate; Sterling, Colo. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.gvsu.edu/docview/1723094627?pq-origsite=summon

>A study on the compositional differences between GM soybeans, conventional soybeans and organic soybeans shows that residues of the chemical glyphosate are found to accumulate in GM soybeans, while non GM soybeans showed no evidence of the residues.

note: This implies that GM farmers are overusing pesticides since it wont harm plant growth.

Bohn, T., Cuhra, M., Traavik, T., Sanden, M., Fagan, J., & Primicerio, R. (2014). Compositional differences in soybeans on the market: Glyphosate accumulates in Roundup Ready GM soybeans. Food Chemistry, 153, 207–215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2013.12.054

>Those who consumed organic produce consumed much less OP (organophosphate) pesticide than those who consumed GM produce. The exposure of the public to OPs is under the EPAs current risk threshold

It's not enough to cause harm in the short term. We will have to see what long term effects, if any, arise.

>apparently I fucked up my bibliography and this last one (should be Curl, 2015) isnt in there. Still got an A, which leads me to believe my prof was too lazy to check my sources.

>>9235337
https://www.ecowatch.com/15-health-problems-linked-to-monsantos-roundup-1882002128.html


GMOs are banned in 98% of western Europe for a reason.

>>9235349
Building off this last post, I googled the half life of glyphosate in water and it is 91 days. Assuming we adjust for how it's metabolized (no clue), stored(if at all), rate of excretion (it is present in urine but not sure any rates)

>>9235373
Honestly, there are legitimate concerns about roundup (theres some class action lawsuits revving up here in US). However, when europe banned GMOs it was based on fearful ignorance (which isn't necessarily bad because GM developers have done a terrible job educating on their products which makes them look shady).

>>9235373
You shouldn't be using the EU as an example of good policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIm1VxElM3E

>>9235409
I agree...