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What common grocery item(s) is it absolutely fine to buy the cheap/unbranded version of? (lemmy.world)

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[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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Why do you say that? Please elaborate.

Not using poison to keep of pests and having to have some decency about how abuse methods are for the land you work on is usually a good thing.

Please translate that sentence into English, or German if that´s easier for you.

The eco labels in the EU mean something. We could argue about how they could be even better, but they’re certainly better than not having any.

I agree with that

Something to avoid is made up labels or esoteric bs like Demeter.

In fact Demeter is much more "organic" than stuff with just the EU Bio label, because their rules are way more strikt. I really don´t care if the farmers bury cow horns filled with manure in their fields during a full moon while praising Rudolf Steiner, if their products are simply of better quality than EU Bio label products and why would I? Everybody is free to live the way they choose ...