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Exactly. I can't stand the whole vote with your dollars bullshit that the organic food people put out there. Fuck you. I want there to be rules and regulations saying you have to grow food without harmful pesticides. I don't want it to be a choice. I want my laundry detergent to be free of dyes and fragrances, and not harm the water supply. I don't want to have to pay extra for it. I want it to be the standard. The only way to get there is regulation.
The organic food people just use different pesticides. "Organic" is all a marketing scam.
This is an oversimplification. It is true that organic farmers are permitted to use certain chemicals on their crops, but the allowed substances are very different in terms of ecological impact compared to conventional chemical treatments (conventional chemicals and their breakdown products generally persist in the environment much longer).
Organic farmers are also required to try to manage pests without chemicals first, steering the organic industry towards "integrated pest management" where very small amounts of pesticides are used in a highly targeted manner.
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/blog/organic-101-allowed-and-prohibited-substances https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/ENTO/ENTO-384/ENTO-384.html