alt Hacker NewsOrganic is just green washing, it doesn’t mean no chemicals. Plenty of organic products contain toxic chemicals and heavy metals. Organic oats have been found to contain glyphosate. Organic spices have been found to contain heavy metals.
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bluebarbet • yesterday at 8:59 PM
Organic is a label which means something specific. Compliance with the definition is controlled by law, however imperfectly. It is not just greenwashing.
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woadwarrior01 • yesterday at 9:48 PM
Within the EU, it does. There's a whole regulation for it: EU 2018/848.
i5heu • yesterday at 8:34 PM
At least in Germany we have “Bio” which is a organic label that is controlled at least somewhat.
tashoecraft • yesterday at 11:41 PM
People are downvoting you, but you’re right: https://news.immunologic.org/p/organic-foods-are-not-healthi...
Organic is marketing. Organic produce is more profitable.
Organic means that no non-organic pesticides have been used in production. There are still organic ones available, which are less dangerous. Especially to the farmers who are the first ones to get exposed to the poisons we spread on the fields.