Organic foods
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Meaning it's not really a good example.
We have internalized the cost of cigarettes much better than we have the cost of environmental polluters caused by industry.
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RandyForRubio
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1) You're insane if you think organic farmers aren't using some type of pesticides.
2) The people most at risk for chemical damage are the people applying the chemicals, not the people eating them. Still, wash your foods.
3) The taste difference between organic and synthetic has more to do with when they're harvested than how they're grown. Most commercial crops are harvested earlier to prevent bruising when shipping and for preservation, and they don't get the natural sugars the plant gives when they ripen.
4) The safety difference between chemicals we use now, and chemicals we used 30-40 years ago is immense. My dad used to dip his hands in a vat of mercury to treat certain crops, we don't do stuff like that anymore. The safety guidelines are much more stringent. Honestly, if people are getting sick applying herbicides, it's because they're not following the safety rules.
2) The people most at risk for chemical damage are the people applying the chemicals, not the people eating them. Still, wash your foods.
3) The taste difference between organic and synthetic has more to do with when they're harvested than how they're grown. Most commercial crops are harvested earlier to prevent bruising when shipping and for preservation, and they don't get the natural sugars the plant gives when they ripen.
4) The safety difference between chemicals we use now, and chemicals we used 30-40 years ago is immense. My dad used to dip his hands in a vat of mercury to treat certain crops, we don't do stuff like that anymore. The safety guidelines are much more stringent. Honestly, if people are getting sick applying herbicides, it's because they're not following the safety rules.
RandyForRubio
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In regards to OP, practically nothing grown is actually organic.
Joe Bagadonuts
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I live right around the corner from that street vendor. I've never had one of their white peaches (never even heard of them) but I'm going to get one now. I'm sure they'll pack up for the season soon.
BTW, the point I was making was that we encounter many harmful things in our daily life that we more or less survive. Smoking is obviously harmful, yet many smokers live to an old age and die from something completely unconnected to smoking.
Are pesticides harmful? Sure, some of them certainly are and others might be. Is that a reason to decrease crop yields dramatically and in so doing raise the cost of food and leave shortages of food that result in many more deaths and a decrease in quality of life much more significant than the harm pesticides have done?
Obviously, we should strive to use pesticides in the least harmful way possible, and use pesticides that lend themselves to safe use, or even better, ones that are not harmful at all.
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RandyForRubio
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Sad thing is that we have crops that require less pesticides, but farmers can't/wont grow thrm because the market won't support GMO foods. Morons that don't know anything about what they eat anyways. People that buy organic crack me up though, my favorite however are the ones that buy gmo free bread.
I guess I don't quite get the joke, as far as what makes GMO free bread even more ridiculous than your typical GMO free type food?