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  • buy organic food with no preservatives
  • look ingredients
  • salt (inorganic preservative)

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      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        10 months ago

        Nothing inherently, you can go ahead and eat apples from your apple tree.

        The main issue with “organic” foods is that the term is usually very badly regulated. Sometimes there is no difference between “organic” and “non organic”… besides price. Sometimes “organic” foods use very ecologically unfriendly techniques, or are grown/processed in countries where supply chains are not inspected anyway.

        Then there’s the fact that if something is different, it may not always be an environmental or health win. Growing your food in 30cm of water may be one organic and traditional way to avoid using pesticides (see: rice), but doing that with corn in the middle of Arizona would obviously be a terrible idea!

        Anyway, overall I don’t think organic foods are worse if you’re well off enough that the price is not an issue. But you shouldn’t feel personal guilt for buying whatever’s cheaper, because quite often the alternative does not justify the price anyway. Eating truly “organic” food unfortunately requires a lot more involvement than picking the green package at a national supermarket chain.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Sometimes there is no difference between “organic” and “non organic”

          Probably the most amusing example is strawberries: it’s essentially impossible to grow them without using non-organic pesticides (and there are such things as organic pesticides despite the near-universal but incorrect belief that “organic” means “no pesticides”) so the USDA allows them to be labelled “organic” if they’re grown with non-organic methods but then replanted and treated organically for a few days before being harvested and shipped to market.

      • kameecoding@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        Because I doubt there is anything we eat that’s non gmo, we have been influencing the genetics of plants around us for centuries.

        For example saying you only eat organic watermelon is fucking stupid, look at how it looked 2000 years ago and how it looks now.

  • AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    I know this is a joke but I highly recommend the app Yuka. You use it to scan food and beauty products and it shows you if they’re toxic. You’ll be astonished at how much is.

    • Killercat103@infosec.pub
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      10 months ago

      Any thoughts on OpenFoodFacts? When you mentioned it, I searched and saw alternativeto.net said this was an open-source alternative. An app is available on F-Droid as well (That software I run is Libre is important for me personally)

      • AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social
        01·
        10 months ago

        Ooh neat. Idk much about it. I’m currently on an iPhone (regret). Yuka is pretty cool in that their pro plan is pay what you will, I will mention, though.