Pesticides are pesticides, even if they’re “organic”
Story Date: 9/26/2012

 
Source: CENTER FOR CONSUMER FREEDOM, 9/25/12

After the recent Stanford analysis finding that organic foods are not more nutritious than “conventional” foods, the refrain from the organic crowd was cliché. The real benefits of organic, they said, was reducing pesticide exposure. It might come as a surprise to some readers, then, to learn that organic farmers also use pesticides. These pesticides just happen to be “certified organic.”

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