[superkuh]

The point of this article is that "organic" farming uses organic pesticides. And more of them are required than when using synthetic pesticides. But I suppose it is the wrong pesticides for the industry lobby (except for copper sulfate?) and that's why they'd have someone write up this article. Not because of the true statements about the synthetic pesticides being safer (lower LD50, lower mass needing to be applied, etc).

Both "sides" that are involved (organic pesticides vs non-organic pesticides) here are arguing for pesticide use in practice.

[NonHyloMorph]

It's written in bad faith in my opinion and also factually wrong in multiple places.

Nicotine sulfate which the srticle explicitly discusses as one of the "natural" substances, used in organic farming (i assune the context is US specifix here) is a) not the natural occuring nicotine of e.g. tobacco plants and b) stictly prohibihed for all types of agriculture, organic or notchemically modified nix.

And the use of the LD50 toxicity as sole metric is laughable: caring about not being exposed to carcinogenic substances, would not even make sense, when everythink that is harmful would also be accordingly toxic in the sense of an LD50 dose.

[superkuh]

It is good to known many of these toxic organic pesticides are banned in the USA. I do wonder about the large fraction of the produce in US grocer's stores that comes from other countries though.