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Anecdotal I know, but a friend in the crop spraying business told me that plenty of food sold as "certified organic" (at least here in the UK) has been dessicated with glyphosphate too.


Best anecdote I heard on the practice: a distant cousin of mine told me about the time he was driving down I-80 and saw them harvesting something off in a field, and there were two bins, one labeled "ORGANIC" and one labeled "REGULAR" and they were feeding the harvest into them both equally.

(editing for clarity: I didn't believe my cousin. I think it's a load of hogwash. I also think people make a lot of stuff up and pass it off as anecdotes because we're a very polite society for that sort of thing.)


> I didn't believe my cousin. I think it's a load of hogwash.

What's in a bin at one moment in time is not necessarily the same crop at another moment in time. While physically labelling bins, rather than keeping record in the office, is not a practice that I see as being very common, conceivably a bin could have been labelled for organic crop at some point in the past and repurposed for non-organic crop (or vice versa) during the harvest your cousin witnessed without putting effort into removing the previous label.

So, the story could be completely true, but doesn't really tell much even if it is.


I mean, farmers also have a sense of humor. A farmer near where I grew up had four giant bins in a row labeled "FLOUR" "SUGAR" "COFFEE" "TEA".




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