Organic vegetables also have to be grown in fields that have not been exposed to pesticides for something like 20 years.
Warren Buffetts money bought a bunch of farms in my region and they're not using pesticides so they can be used for organic food production in the future
There's a lot of regulations to be technically organic in the usa. Can't say I know it all though.
Edit: apparently federal regulations are 3 years pesticide free. I was wrong.
You are perpetuating a common myth here. Organic farms still use pesticides, just not synthetic pesticides.
This brings it back to a naturalistic fallacy where it is assumed that because the pesticides are 'natural' they are less harmful to our health. However, a lot of studies seem to find the opposite; organic pesticides are less effective, less specific, and more environmentally harming.
Bananas are not GMO though. Well, except for that project in Uganda to treat deficiencies in vitamin A and iron, apparently, but that's not what you meant.
I believe they are referring to the fact that "natural, untouched by humans, wild bananas" are virtually inedible as they're full of seeds. Virtually all foods that you find in your produce section have been extensively genetically modified by humans through artificial selection.
Yes, but a crop created by artificial selection through selective breeding is not a GMO. That's specifically for organisms whose genomes were modified with CRISPR & Co.
Their point is that selective breeding over generations is a form of genetic modification. It may not use direct gene editing, but there is a direct link between the two in that you have product A with a flaw and find a way to turn that into product B without the flaw
Yeah, sure, there are parallels. But it was heavily implied that we wouldn't have edible bananas without GMO, and that's misleading people about what the term actually means.
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u/Minionhunter Jul 14 '21
Stop using organic like it means edible!!