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Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists (lemmy.world)

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[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

Don't look at what being used to fertilize your fruits and vegetables. Don't look at what being sprayed on any of those fruits and vegetables. Don't look at any of the other pieces of the food chain.

[-] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

That's why, in general you should look into non-GMO or organic foods. There are a few fruits and vegetables that are hardy on their own, but berries, broccoli, spinach, etc tend to absorb the chemicals used by farmers and people are indirectly ingesting them.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

Check out this guy. Still doesn't understand what fertilizer is made of. Especially organic....

[-] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I honestly don't understand what point you're trying make.

[-] Sniatch@feddit.org 1 points 6 months ago

The animals eat the same food so in the end you can't escape it. But you can stop to make animals suffer for your burger.

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 6 months ago

I assume you're talking about manure, but I think industrially-made fertilizers made from hydrocarbons/phosphor/potash are way, way more common, no?

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

I mean that all depends on the organization whether they consider it organic or not and they're not using man-made fertilizer and using natural fertilizers etc. I think quite more of the people that are into that type of lifestyle are more interested in eating organically which it's more common to utilize something like a manure fertilizer.

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I dunno, I think most vegans are probably just buying the same fruit and veg as the rest of us, just choosing to not buy meat. For sure some waste products from the animal agriculture industry will be involved in their lives, but I think those waste products probably wouldn't be used if it wasn't for the much more profitable industry that existed to fill the demand for meat, dairy, fish, etc. so even if vegans did use waste products of animal agriculture it's not really a gotcha, in my opinion

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