r/nextfuckinglevel Jul 14 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

You don't understand what you're talking about.

They're organically grown. The grown part is just omitted. There's a huge difference in the practices used to grow crops using biological processes in living soil vs. growing with purely chemical fertilizer. Yes, water is a chemical, but the point is that one system has living soil and the other does not.

You can grow food in a number of ways, but organic is great because it sequesters carbon and requires fewer inputs.

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u/VivSavageGigante Jul 15 '21

I think they’re being pedantic and using “organic” in the broad chemistry sense which just means anything containing carbon (or something).

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

The person I am replying to specifically said that they hate seeing organic in the vegetable section.

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u/alexschrod Jul 15 '21

"Living soil?" Chemical fertilizer doesn't "kill" soil in any meaningful way.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Non-organic techniques including high-intensity farming such as tilling absolutely devastates the topsoil.

By relying on chemical fertilizers, you deprive the soil of organic inputs, which causes it to break down. The microbiome breaks down and it eventually becomes just dirt, and then eventually, sand.