Myth: Organic aliment is 100 percen...

Myth: Organic aliment is 100 percent pesticide-free.

Truth: While organic farmers don't apply environmentally harmful chemicals to craws they are permitted to use safer pesticides where necessary. The organic designation not ever really meant 100 percent pesticide- or chemical-free, despite public perception. The designation actually describes a manner of farming that is as ecologically perfect as possible. Also, chemical pesticides are now likewise widespread that they appear regularly in the rainwater that drenches all craws conventional and organic alike. These chemicals can also drift by the agency of the air onto organic fields from conventional fields located miles away.

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