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by yayadarsh 2614 days ago
This is absolutely untrue. "Organic" is a regulated term by the USDA, requiring verification from an accredited certifying agency.
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USDA organic allows non organic pesticides and herbicides. It's a joke of a standard.
Really? Growing up on a farm, and having friends/acquaintances who were either organic or interested in going organic, I don't recall that pesticides and herbicides were allowed. The so-called "organic pesticides" and "organic herbicides" I've seen are mostly just all natural snake oil...
Here's the list of non-organic substances allowed by USDA [1] and hopefully it means more to you than it does to me.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=06b088e611c...

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