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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

eat better organic food

A slight nit-pick here, but when it comes to greenhouse gas impact, organic food may be worse. It's certainly not clearly better.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Almost definitely worse lol. We have the option to modify the genome of the plants we eat in order to make then better in every way and still some people are like "no that's icky because science".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

GMO != organic as far as I know?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In the US organic means no GMOs as well according to usda

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Gotcha. That’s a shame

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Usually people assume organic is the opposite of GMOs and stuff, but it's also nonsense because they'd never drink water straight from a puddle, but want the shit on their crops to be as untreated as possible. Or well, sold to them that way, of course it's not, it's just fertilizer #2 instead of the - more efficient and hence indirectly better for the environment - fertilizer #1.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I've overheard that before too. If they would just change their words to "eat less meat" they're be right, but to only say "organic" implies standard agriculture is worse, and it is not clearly so.

We should eat less meat though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

organic food definitely uses more resources per unit output than "commercial" ag. It can't supply the world's food supply unless they greatly increase their capabilities. It's either "modern methods" or we reduce the worlds population.