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you may find this four part series on pesticide use on organic farms to be interesting: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/05/21/do-organic-far...

Thank you for this. I’ll try to keep an open mind while reading it.

That was a great read, thank you.

Depends on where you live etc.

Around here the branding is "økologisk" and based on what I read here I think it is quite a bit stricter than the US (but I only grew up on a farm, worked on farms and spent a few months in farming school. I haven't practiced farming for 20 years and I didn't specialize in ecologic farming.)

Yeah, but what pesticide? I don't really mind if my food get sprayed with lots of ethanol, lemon juice, or soap, which are three organic-approved pesticides.

This article may give you some information on that with links to the full list on the USDA site. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/06/18/1372492...