CORRECTION

usual suspect wrote:
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> The reality is there's *no* significant difference between methods other
> than the fact that conventional crop production may include use of
> synthetic pestcides and fertilizers and are also routinely monitored for
> pesticide residues. Organic crops allow the use of natural versions of
> the *very same* pesticides and are NOT monitored for residues (despite
> the fact that many of the natural pesticides are equally dangerous as
> the synthetics).

Parenthesis should read: despite the fact that the natural pesticides
are equally dangerous as the synthetics. There's no significant
difference in the toxicity of either conventional or organic pesticides,
just that conventional ones are tested and limited in use while organics
are neither tested nor limited for application on crops.

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