• No_Eponym@lemmy.ca
    42·
    11 days ago

    Huh? From your own link

    • organic farmers use different kinds of pesticide if they use pesticide
    • they need to use non-pesticide methods first, and any pesticide use is heavily regulated
    • while some of the organic and limited synthetic pesticides could and do have potential human health implications, the vast majority of the synthetic pesticides used on conventional produce are widely recognized as probably having some damaging impacts on humans eating produce contaminated by them.

    As a result

    • Conventional vegetables were contaminated with 2 to 17 times as many pesticides as were organic vegetables. Conventional fruits were contaminated with 6–75 times as many pesticides as organic fruits.
    • The dietary risk index was more than 50 times higher for conventional vegetables than for organic vegetables, and more than 130 times higher for conventional fruits.

    Don’t both sides this. The person saying buying organic is just raising your grocery bill without changing your pesticide exposure or risks is objectively, factually wrong.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
      15·
      11 days ago

      If you haven’t studied this then trying a gotcha is pretty dumb.

      Slightly less exposure to chemicals and a higher impact on the environment isn’t always the win you think it is.

      Don’t turn this into a both sides issue. Stop carrying water for organic farming practices when you don’t know what the fuck you are even talking about!

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        41·
        11 days ago

        uses facts from your own link that contradict the point you’re trying to make

        If you haven’t studied this then trying a gotcha is pretty dumb.

        Okay… 🙄

        • Doomsider@lemmy.world
          15·
          11 days ago

          What exactly contradicted my original statement.

          Please just stop acting stupid it is not a good look.

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            31·
            11 days ago

            Please just stop acting stupid it is not a good look.

            It’s funny how it’s typically the ones with the flimsiest arguments that say shit like this.

            If you can’t see the contradiction then you apparently didn’t even read it.