• Plaidboy@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      This is an oversimplification. It is true that organic farmers are permitted to use certain chemicals on their crops, but the allowed substances are very different in terms of ecological impact compared to conventional chemical treatments (conventional chemicals and their breakdown products generally persist in the environment much longer).

      Organic farmers are also required to try to manage pests without chemicals first, steering the organic industry towards “integrated pest management” where very small amounts of pesticides are used in a highly targeted manner.

      https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/blog/organic-101-allowed-and-prohibited-substances https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/ENTO/ENTO-384/ENTO-384.html

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      Not always. Some of their food is just full of eggs/ larva that will erupt into an entire colony that takes over your whole damn kitchen!

      Source: Stuck my dick in crazy.

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          4 days ago

          I dated this chick that was way into holistic all natural whatever. I swear you could put anything in a cardboard box or other plain packaging with “organic” on the side and she should buy that shit and than post about it changing her life…

          Anyway, she had some mixed nuts or some such completely unopened. Left that shit in my cupboard and I swear not even a week later my place was full of moths!

          It took days to even figure out where they were all coming from. Just suddenly it was end of days in my house. She came back over at some point and was like wtf is going on with these bugs!?

          I forget which one of us found it but dude, that container was jam packed with life. Like a whole ass ecosystem in there one by one squeezing it’s way out through a tiny crack in the container! Fuckin Nasty!

          With the source removed it still took a week or two for the place to be free of the damn things.

          She sure could suck a dick tho!