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It also kills the worms, which nurture the garden. So much better all around to just dig into the soil with your hands and pull the weeds out. Dandelion weed is a very healthful addition to vegetarian soup base.
True story, at farmers market near me. The parking lot is usual oil stained, antifreeze stained, salt stained mess.
So guy is unloading a big crate of organic fruit. It drops this stuff goes rolling all over parking lot. Guys run around gather it up and put it back in box.
I am inside shopping and some lady who was in parking lot is having a hissy fit. She is watching them put them right on shelf. She is like they are no longer organic. Owner was like I pay a lot extra for that sticker on them that says organic. I am not throwing them away.
Then I found this interesting. He goes, a farmer growing organic veggies will use cow Poop as fertilizer, pick it up with his filthy hands, throw it loose in back of a truck. Then another truck picks it up and shipped to the big Farmers wholesale market in the bronx. I go buy it and I dont know how many other hands are touching it and then I throw it in another truck and it appears here.
Rolling in the parking lot is least of the issues. These veggies were litterally sitting in cow poop less than 24 hours ago and all you care is it touched the parking lot for a second. It was so funny
What the fruit physically touches after maturity is irrelevant. Except to those who choose not to wash their produce before they consume it, I guess.
I do not care about it for the most part. Of course, I would not want my veggies sprayed with an unsafe chemical, but I don't mind a little help from science.
I will get things locally sourced whenever possible, and would not get food from China, for example. Thankfully, I have many sources without resorting to rip off prices at Whole Foods.
We have many farmers markets here in better weather. When the organics hit the chemicals on the parking lot, ethically it really was no longer organic. But the reality is this kind of thing happens. I don't like it. If I knew it, I'd pass up his grubby hands and move on. I've done this at the markets. Cow poop or antifreeze (dependent on quantity of the chemical and cow poop), I'm not sure which is worse and I wouldn't choose either.
Yup, I pour bags of the stuff in my vegetable garden every year. Then every two weeks, I water it with fish poop. Argue your gross factor all you want. But there's one thing about these organic items that no one debates: THEY DON'T KILL BEES.
Do you folks know nothing about organic gardening? For people who take the matter seriously, organic has nothing to do with what you're eating. It's about not killing an ecosystem that humans rely on for survival.
"If all farms were organic, there would not be enough food for the world." Seriously, this one wins the internet for most ignorant statement of the week. Why? Because throw enough insect-killing pesticides around, and all the pollinators will keep dieing. No pollinators, no food. Geez louise!
There is plenty of food. The organic growers are not preventing others from growing whichever method they want to use. There's room for everyone. It doesn't matter whether someone believes a certain way or not. Organic growers are not going to take over trying to do all of it.
Organic foods are not realistic. If all farms were organic, there would not be enough food for the world. You see, organic crops do not yield the same amount as nonorganic. Just a couple of years back, the government announced to farmer's that we need to nearly double our yields in 10 years or so or we would have a food shortage. Meadows were put into corn, famer's plowed as close to ditches and roads as they could get, every possible niche of land was opened up for crops.
Then you have the blind organic believer's that don't want pesticides, fertilizers and etc. Can they not see that it is NECESSARY to sustain our food chain?
Cancer has been around since the beginning of time. It hadn't been discovered, but it was there. How may people died of old age or unknown illnesses? With such a huge population, yes, we have more cancer. Two centuries ago approximately 50% of children died in the first couple of years (from illnesses, not cancer) so are we really to complain of the odds we have now? Balance the risks of cancer in the present verses the odds they had back then- I'd say we are still in a better place now.
We need food to survive.
Good for you, then you have no problem with smokers and inhaling second hand smoke. No?
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