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  • buy organic food with no preservatives
  • look ingredients
  • salt (inorganic preservative)

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Sometimes there is no difference between “organic” and “non organic”

    Probably the most amusing example is strawberries: it’s essentially impossible to grow them without using non-organic pesticides (and there are such things as organic pesticides despite the near-universal but incorrect belief that “organic” means “no pesticides”) so the USDA allows them to be labelled “organic” if they’re grown with non-organic methods but then replanted and treated organically for a few days before being harvested and shipped to market.

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I imagine the USDA as a tired underpaid fast-food employee that has to deal with moronic entitled customers.

      - “I want an organic strawberry!”
      - “I already explained to you that strawberries cannot be grown without non-organic pesticide.”
      - “Are you telling me no?!”
      - “I’m telling you that what you want is agriculturally impossible.”
      - “Do you have any idea who I am!?”
      - “Ugh… you know what? Okay.”
      * Takes a perfectly regular “non-organically” grown strawberry.
      * Slaps an “organic” label on it.
      - “Here you go. One organic strawberry. Thank you for shopping with USDA!”
      - “Was that so hard?”