RE: Organic food?
July 7, 2014 at 5:50 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2014 at 6:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
All the general rules are "according to the USDA" and none of them prevent the use of fertilizers or pesticides. There are more OMRI certified pesticides and fertilizers in existence and use than there are non-OMRI certified ones. Further, pesticides and fertilizers used on organics (and approved for such use) are applied in greater amounts due to their lesser efficacy (in some cases) and purity (in all cases).
The most widely used pesticide, and the one from which tons of others are derived, is "certification neutral". It can be used by both "traditional" and organic producers. Pyrethrin. The manner in which the pyrethrin is secured and processed alone determines whether or not any given source is OMRI certified. To be completely blunt...organics have tested again and again to have higher levels of pesticides present in post harvest handling (and this would be understandable, since they can't use the kind of detergents that traditional producers apply - as a rule). Whether or not the presence of their pesticides bothers you is an issue of how effective you imagine them to be in the first place. I'm not worried - about the organics or the traditional produce, personally. Might have something to do with my being an EPA certified pesticide handling trainer. This stuff isn't magic (it's certainly not mysterious - and it's very easy to approach), it's simple organic chemistry.
What - the fuck....have my fellow producers been feeding people of late, and when did we become so gullible?
The most widely used pesticide, and the one from which tons of others are derived, is "certification neutral". It can be used by both "traditional" and organic producers. Pyrethrin. The manner in which the pyrethrin is secured and processed alone determines whether or not any given source is OMRI certified. To be completely blunt...organics have tested again and again to have higher levels of pesticides present in post harvest handling (and this would be understandable, since they can't use the kind of detergents that traditional producers apply - as a rule). Whether or not the presence of their pesticides bothers you is an issue of how effective you imagine them to be in the first place. I'm not worried - about the organics or the traditional produce, personally. Might have something to do with my being an EPA certified pesticide handling trainer. This stuff isn't magic (it's certainly not mysterious - and it's very easy to approach), it's simple organic chemistry.
What - the fuck....have my fellow producers been feeding people of late, and when did we become so gullible?
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