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ch4s3today at 2:45 PM1 replyview on HN

> Organic grown food is more nutritious

This isn't categorically true if you're comparing the same variety of crop. Vaclav Smil does great work compiling data on this in his book "How to Feed the World". The overall environmental picture is also more complicated[1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/is-organic-agriculture-better-for...


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Maxiontoday at 8:47 PM

One big problem here is that 'organic' as-in certified organic, means something very different from Real Organic (as coined by the Rodale Institute). And among people who try to grow more organically (as in with nature, not the certified mess big-ag created to steal the term) there is a wide variety of ways people do it in a wide variety of places that have a wide variety of history.

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