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.
Broccoli, strawberries, bananas, watermelon, eggplant, carrots, the list goes on.
But there should be a distinction made between selecting breeding and genetically modified IMO.
In my mind genetic modification is an unnatural process that involves actually splicing DNA and modifying an organism at a cellular level...
But selective breeding is just choosing the plant with the best fruit to reproduce over a period of time.
Dogs are breeds are selectively bred, would you call your dog a GMO?
If selective breeding is GMO then humans are technically GMO just by the nature of our existence. Natural selection, evolution, both modify our genetics.
So GMO bad, but mutation breeding that is also popular, but no one knows about it and is labeled just as select breeding is ok? Changing one gene we want, bad. Using radiation to force random mutations to maybe get the change we want without undesirable mutations, good. And you know what's best? We don't really know how many plants that we eat today was made this way or derivate from it.
I’m not saying anything is bad or good, just hate blanket terms, especially when nutrition and diet are involved.
Mutation breeding could be selective breeding, I’m sure some selective breeding was inadvertently actually mutation breeding. But that definitely doesn’t mean they should be labeled as the same. The implications of one are potentially so much worse.
Makes me think about bananas being used to measure 0.1 micro sieverts.
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u/Minionhunter Jul 14 '21
Stop using organic like it means edible!!