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What’s the difference with Organic Produce?

I have heard that organic fruits and veggies they do not use pesticides. What else do they do differently? I bought some organic strawberries today and spinach. I have heard that strawberries since they are porous they absorb pesticides so you can’t even rinse it off so I am going to buy those organic from now on.

Organic farming is regulated by the USDA http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop.

organic farms do not use synthetic pesticides but do use natural based pesticides (plant based, fungi based, bacteria based). organic farms do not use synthetic fertilizers. They feed the soil with composts, aged manures, mineral powders, green manure (a crop grow specifically to be turned into the soil). organic farmers believe (and peer reviwed science is beginning to back up this notion) that healthy soils lead to healthy crops and more nutrient dense crops so they feed the soil and let the life in the soil feed the crops. The conventional farmer, on the other hand, uses synthetic salt based ferts and views the soil as a substrate to hold crops in place and give a place for the fertilizers to feed the plants a very limited feed.

Other differences are no GMO are used either as crops or in animals feed. N sewage sludge is allowed on organic fields and raw manure is highly regulated as to when it can be used (this is not the case on conventional farms where manure is used to fertilize the fields along with synthetic fertilizers)

Organic Strawberry fields are not fumigated with methyl bromide which is a powerful greenhouse gas that destroys the ozone and also kills everything in the soil making conventional strawberry fields free of bacteria and fungi both good and bad (BTW Most of the microscopic critters are necessary for healthy life on this planet but chemical companies make a lot of $$$ brain washing us to use their expensive poisons to kill off everything)

http://www.organicconsumers.org is a great place to get lots of news, science and other information about organic foods

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