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Originally Posted by Shazam
You mean, like the conditions that workers on the field would experience?
So you're saying that you're okay with rotenone because it's organic, toxicity be damned?
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I am saying there is a lot of fear mongering going on out there and your way or wording things falls into that category.
No, I do not like the use of a lot of pesticides and herbicides, I try to avoid as much of that as possible. But I also do not believe I am going to die tomorrow if I eat food from the shelves in Canadian supermarkets. Anything can be skewed so people get scared and confused. You can also poison yourself if you take too many vitamin supplements etc. There are many risks in life, you do what you can to minimize them. You can also skew information about foods themselves, not just how they were produced. So people get hung up on for instance the type of fats they use in their food. I mean, all fats have pretty well the same calories per Tbsp, but not all have the same amount of saturated fats for that same amount.
So you make choices based upon your knowledge, based upon your income too of course.
I also know that it is almost impossible to get away from all of the chemicals. So I do what I can to minimize the impact. I have my own veggie garden, that is indeed 100% organic, unless something has come in from the air. I make most of my own foods from scratch, I read labels very carefully, I buy some organic, some not.