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by Agustus 2885 days ago
Organic marketing is the result of our education system failing to properly educate our populace on chemistry and the marketing taking advantage of the failure. When you go to a conventional farm you can see the exact chemicals sprayed onto the crops in a precise manner, there are GPS programs to correctly allocate based on prior science efforts. Then someone noted that isolated chemicals were not natural and stated that natural was better for you; not questioning why spreading manure instead of the chemical necessary was better (which the manure now runs off and causes issues like when we did not have the agri stewardship we have today).

Organic marketing works because decision makers lack the critical thinking to question the efficacy difference. This being said, there is a difference in taste between and organic red delicious and conventionally grown red delicious.