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Good, stay safe!

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No, I did NOT make that assumption. I learned some things in that there Botany thingy I did. Most small organic farmers use a system called IPM, or Integrated Pest Management. The Wiki on IPM was accurate last time I looked. When worse comes to worst, the organic farmer has a choice to make if a crop is affected by a pest(pest being either a weed or bug). They can hand pull the weeds, or hand pick the insects. OR, they can use a non-petrochemical derived pest control, or count the entire crop as a loss, burn or remove it, let it over-winter, and turn under in the spring, then plant a different species of crop there. I live right down the road from an organic farm that uses IPM, and the produce is cheap! HA HA HA city dwellers.

Now of course, since big ag has gotten hip to the fact that the majority of the public would prefer their food not be soaked in petro-chemicals it's whole life cycle, or they don't want jellyfish genes in their tomatoes, so now they're getting in on the "organic" thing by calling things "Natural," which doesn't mean shit. Certified Organic does, at this point, but big Ag is doing it's best to soften the edges of what Certiied Organic means, so they can cheat and make even moar monies.

And it's not that I DON'T eat conventionally grown GMO foods, either. I would prefer it be marked as such, the same as I wish that meat producers would still be required to mark the country of origin of our meat. Except for chicken 'cuz we already know that 90% of commercially available chicken is processed in China, the same country that poisoned their own babbies, and our dogs and cats.

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