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user-inactivated · 2726 days ago · link · · parent · post: Shake it up. Offer up one somewhat unpopular opinion that you hold.
That's not unpopular much longer. Here's an unpopular version: Organic crops are cruel and selfish. They take up more land to produce the same crop and use 'natural' pesticides and herbicides which are often more toxic than synthetic herbicides and persist in the soil longer. They contribute to global famine by taking land away from more productive crops. They contribute to drought and desertification by taking land from less thirsty crops. They sustain the narrative that they are superior nutritively without proof. They contribute to deforestation and only exist to make rich people feel accomplished when really they've done nothing.