It’s a marketing tool, in blind testing people don’t differentiate between organic and GMO, nutritional value is the same or better, there’s less waste as crops are better protected.
Anyway, we’ve been breeding crops by mixing them for so long at this point that everything is technically a GMO.
There needs better regulations around herbicides and pesticides for sure though.
Interesting. Here in Germany, we have “bio” food, which I believe is similar in scope. And while it certainly doesn’t either regulate that it’s actually high-quality food that you’re buying, it has become somewhat synonymous with ‘premium’, so shops do often pander to the higher expectations. Like, the tomatoes that taste the best are from the farmer’s market, then bio tomatoes are still okay, and non-bio tomatoes often just taste like water.
Thing is, the farmer’s market/bio tomatoes would also taste like water if they could develop as much as the non-bio tomatoes and the non-bio tomatoes can taste the same as the others if they’re not getting boosted to make them as big as possible…
Truth is, we can’t realistically feed all humans on bio food, not if we care about waste.
In principle, I agree, but non-bio will long-term also not be able to feed all humans, as it’s so destructive to nature. Like, you probably know the relatively simple causality of pollinators dying from pesticides (and climate change).
Obviously, in theory, we ‘just’ need to find the correct poison, which only kills the insects we don’t like, but I don’t think that’s going to happen in practice. So, if the regulations are chosen sensibly and get enforced enough to matter, then I do think having an option to pay more for companies to be less shit, is good. (I am aware, that this is also somewhat utopian.)
Ultimately, I think, veganism could help us get everyone fed, because eating plants directly, rather than having them digested by an animal first, is essentially always going to be more efficient, in terms of land use, water use, greenhouse gas emissions, required pesticides and so on. But yeah, that the majority of people switch to veganism in the next few decades, is also utopian.
So, ultimately-ultimately, I think, we’ll just do it like we always do: Procrastinate, do too little too late, and have people in foreign nations starve. 🎉
It’s a marketing tool, in blind testing people don’t differentiate between organic and GMO, nutritional value is the same or better, there’s less waste as crops are better protected.
Anyway, we’ve been breeding crops by mixing them for so long at this point that everything is technically a GMO.
There needs better regulations around herbicides and pesticides for sure though.
Organic != Non-gmo
Youre actually incorrect.
The use of genetic engineering, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs), is prohibited in organic products.
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2013/05/17/organic-101-can-gmos-be-used-organic-products
Interesting. Here in Germany, we have “bio” food, which I believe is similar in scope. And while it certainly doesn’t either regulate that it’s actually high-quality food that you’re buying, it has become somewhat synonymous with ‘premium’, so shops do often pander to the higher expectations. Like, the tomatoes that taste the best are from the farmer’s market, then bio tomatoes are still okay, and non-bio tomatoes often just taste like water.
Thing is, the farmer’s market/bio tomatoes would also taste like water if they could develop as much as the non-bio tomatoes and the non-bio tomatoes can taste the same as the others if they’re not getting boosted to make them as big as possible…
Truth is, we can’t realistically feed all humans on bio food, not if we care about waste.
In principle, I agree, but non-bio will long-term also not be able to feed all humans, as it’s so destructive to nature. Like, you probably know the relatively simple causality of pollinators dying from pesticides (and climate change).
Obviously, in theory, we ‘just’ need to find the correct poison, which only kills the insects we don’t like, but I don’t think that’s going to happen in practice. So, if the regulations are chosen sensibly and get enforced enough to matter, then I do think having an option to pay more for companies to be less shit, is good. (I am aware, that this is also somewhat utopian.)
Ultimately, I think, veganism could help us get everyone fed, because eating plants directly, rather than having them digested by an animal first, is essentially always going to be more efficient, in terms of land use, water use, greenhouse gas emissions, required pesticides and so on. But yeah, that the majority of people switch to veganism in the next few decades, is also utopian.
So, ultimately-ultimately, I think, we’ll just do it like we always do: Procrastinate, do too little too late, and have people in foreign nations starve. 🎉