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My stance is that the idea was good until capitalism got its hands on it. Now (in the US anyway) the large scale producers have lobbied the official legal requirements to label "organic" to the point where they are mostly meaningless.
Also, a lot of times farmers will grow organic and conventional produce too close to each other and overspray from the conventional pesticides/fertilizers etc. will end up on the organic stuff anyway. (I don't know if it's 100% legit, but this blogpost seems to cover things reasonably well.)
Until recently, this is where I would recommend to grow as much of your own food as you can(or buy directly from someone who is), but with PFAS and microplastics in rainwater I think we're mostly just screwed anyway.
lol, maybe we can retreat to hydroponics?
Are there filters that can even take out the super tiny bits of plastic that are in literally everything now?
if we already can't stop them getting through the blood brain barrier it might be joever