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- buy organic food with no preservatives
- look ingredients
- salt (inorganic preservative)
Image of a cat looking down at the camera.
buy food without any kind of preservative
spoils in a day or two
shocked pikachu face
That’s a big problem in makeup too! Companies want to put out “clean” and “natural” makeup but makeup isn’t typically used very quickly. Makeup with no preservatives going bad is common.
“Organic” and “nonGMO” are two things that will actively make me avoid your product.
One of my personal pet peeves, along with people who act like “clean energy” simply means no smog or visible particulate emissions.
Personally I like charging up batteries in the Nether and bringing them back so the emissions don’t matter.
Stupid question, what’s wrong with organic?
It’s a bullshit marketing term to appeal to pseudoscience and anti-intellectuals.
It’s a heavily abused and arbitrary marketing term that doesn’t actually indicate anything about what the food is made of or how it’s made or grown. It also doesn’t indicate anything about how healthy the food is or how good it tastes. At most it’s slightly better for the environment in some areas with some brands when used properly, but even then regulations are too lax and inconsistent worldwide for it to be a trustworthy label.
Wasn’t aware there’s anything wrong. Albeit more expensive, I prefer to not eat pesticides. 🤷♂️
https://wqscert.com/usda-organic
Granted, I’m not sure there are long-term medical studies proving any harmful effect of doing so.
Organic foods can and usually do have pesticides, and those pesticides are just as harmful to you as the artificial ones. For instance, Rotenone was an organic pesticide used for decades that is strongly linked to parkinsons and has since been banned in North America.
Also quantity, most “organic” pesticides are significantly less effective and so it requires more applications of more product in order to get the same effect. Eating “organic” likely exposed you to more pesticides than the alternative.
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year ago
It’s code for “same shit but more expensive” As with all the labels, the intent is to shark people’s ignorance with meaningless buzzwords.
Depends on where you live. As far as I know the term is not well protected in many countries, so it means next to nothing there.
However, I live in the EU / Germany, where we have several organic farming standards that are all fairly strict. Generally, organic actually means organically produced food here, grown without artificial pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and so on.
It’s more expensive, and it’s typically not that much better than inorganic.
Huh. Why??
Reject modernity, embrace salt as currency.
Don’t worry. It was there for flavor. Not preservation.
The wealth of misinformation and personal opinions in this thread is… it’s just classic.
It’s incredible that as we are actively engaging in conversation on the internet we fail to use this modern marvel to better ourselves. Instead, we choose to bear our ignorance and influence impressionable minds.
I mean, I know this a meme and maybe not the right place for fact checking, still…
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/health-benefits-organic-food-farming-report/
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.
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)
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.
Spoiler:
Spoiler work differently here :)At least they labeled salt correctly as “inorganic”. Doesn’t matter, but it’s at least correct.
