My dad an I farm conventionally, but I buy organic stuff. Not really much different in price. If a couple bucks here and there are gonna break the bank, you have more serious things to worry about. I can choose what I want to eat and buy, so I do. Part of our farm is rented out to an organic farmer, he does a good job, clean crops. I personally don't really want to eat a ton of stuff that has been loaded with herbicide. We try to use as little herbicide as possible, one time per season, with as light of application as possible. Some guys will spray the same fields numerous times even after harvest to keep the weeds down during the fall, or spray in the spring before planting and then after planting, using flood nozzles so they can spray in 20 mph wind. If crops are sprayed at the optimum time, it works a lot better than the guys that you watch spraying in the wind where the liquid leaves the nozzle and immediately is blown away from the flood nozzle at a right angle. But a lot of guys do it that way. Ever see how many times potatoes and sugar beets are sprayed for bugs, blight, diseases? Just about every week. The spraying of foliar feed doesn't bother me as much as the other stuff though. You spray enough of that stuff into the dirt, it's going to be there permanently in some form or another. Why do you think you aren't supposed to just drain your engine oil into the dirt? Superfund sites? Have one of those near me, that used to make all sorts of chemicals that are now embedded in the soil. I know I eat some stuff that is conventionally grown, and I'm ok with that, but I get to choose what I want to eat for the most part. Some people don't care what they eat, and I'm ok with that too. I've been exposed to enough chemicals in my previous jobs when I was younger and didn't know any better, and still am when I'm working on someone's truck, tractor, etc. I get oil on me sometimes, covered even, but I sure don't make it a point to stick my hands in used engine oil for no reason, or swallow gas if I can help it. There's a few orchards around me. There has been a couple older fellows that used to work in the orchards that ended up with nerve damage and Parkinson's disease. The doctors told them it's a more common thing, or something they have seen among orchard workers around here when exposed to the sprays that are used/used to be used in orchards. Back in the day, these guys sprayed on open station tractors, at the mercy of the wind and drift, and some pretty nasty stuff back in the day. They're gone now, but they both said looking back they wished they'd been more careful in what they exposed themselves to. I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong, everyone is allowed to do and buy what they like, but when you spray water on a plant, it absorbs it. When you spray water with chemicals on a plant, it absorbs it. I don't feel like absorbing what was absorbed into that plant intentionally if I can help it. I do eat Cheerios for breakfast though, and I think we all know how they say Cheerios contain glyphosate.
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