Tangent: Is there such a thing as "organic" for people that don't mind GMO, or fertilizer, but don't want their food sprayed with pesticides?
Some of these allowed pesticides, like copper sulfate, are far more carcinogenic than even the compounds (glyphosate, for example) that are considered dangerous enough to warrant public concern campaigns.[1]
[1] https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/07/23/organic-fungic...
I did not mean to state copper sulfate (or any of the organic farming compounds) is cancer causing and I would f have fixed the typo if I was still within the edit window.
In conventional farming conditions are so bad for pork that a large percentage of them die of disease, despite all the anti-biotics, before even heading to the butcher. I feel less inclined to touch that stuff unless it's from a local farm I know. Poultry and beef have their own set of problems.
Do you really want a herd of food animals living in pain/suffering because you won't give them worming drugs? Or antibiotics for a bacterial infection?
No, thanks.
I remember from my life at farm that even just spraying it few days too late basically "ruined" a lot of fruit