• moonluna@lemmy.worldOP
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    14 hours ago

    This is utter nonsense. When i was in the States I went to organic farmers markets, known some of the local farmers, went to the amish, this isn’t a thing in the slightest.

    Outside of America this would be even more laughable as all the natural producers of fruits and vegetables would ask you “what in the world are you talking about?”

    Even the country I’m in now would be puzzled by this statement. It’s far detached from the reality I live in and experience

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        12 hours ago

        This is study by Clark and Tilman (2017) that they based their results from doesn’t correlate to any reality that I’ve ever witness. I tried to find connections to a GMO producer that they might of had but I could not. Because I can’t understand how they could come to such a conclusion.

        Non organic farming uses just as much fertilizer and on top of it uses very toxic chemicals from synthetic pesticides. So their eutrophication levels would certainly be higher than organics that may use fertilizers but dont use the synthetics.

        The report also shows that it is some not all instances that organic is worst for energy levels or pollution which as nothing to do with your claim nor my claim of viruses coming from regrowing your vegetables/fruits from the grocery.

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          10 hours ago

          Did you read the paper?

          https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6cd5/pdf

          It’s a pretty decent one but there are others that I find better done. I posted the world in numbers one because its got nice graphs and is well cited.

          I’ll post more if you would like to discuss it futher.

          As for your question on nitrogen/phosphate runoff it’s pretty simple. Organic fertilizers like manure take time to break down by microbial action into the exact same molecular chemicals as synthetic fertilizer. Say you have 4 months of production time when the plants can use nutrients. Microbial action on manure can take up to 6 months until it releases all of the nutrients. The excess nutrients that are release when no crop is growing runs off and causes environmental damage.

          As for my comments on disease and seed, I can give you references to all of them except the SQMV. That’s unpublished data that I used to convince some idiot C-suite types to release some capital investment. Gave a pathology tech a very bad few weeks one summer.

          You are under the impression the all synthetic chemistry and GMO’s are bad. This is flat out not true . They are technology that can be used for very f Good and stupid uses. Example a very good GMO is virus resistance (PRSV in Papayas). A fucking stupid one is Roundup resistance.

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            10 hours ago

            I read the paper. I already know organic food is better than GMO, people have been farming organically 99% of humanities existence compared to GMO. If you want to eat that man made manipulation of nature you can but I’ll just eat the nature. No synthetic is good for organic lifeforms which humans are. You humans think you can out perform nature but you can’t.

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                8 hours ago

                Genetically modified food where the DNA is changed in a laboratory with CRISPR technology is not the same. I can’t keep educating you layman on things you clearly just need to learn. Is not the same as agricultural domestication of crops. Once again TRAVEL to different places, maybe talk to some farmers one on one and get to know what’s really happening over here in the real world.

                If you think mixing a tomatoe with fish DNA so it can grow in the winter is natural you are too far gone.

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              9 hours ago

              Lol, you KNOW do you. That sounds like a religious belief. When you come to a conclusion based upon a belief and then try to force facts to fit it.

              Yep that doesn’t work for me.

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                9 hours ago

                When you travel around the world and see they eat organic you’ll understand

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                    42 minutes ago

                    Only among people who attempt to overcome their innate bias and come to rational conclusions based on evidence.