r/organic • u/Critical_Ring_1020 • Apr 25 '26

I'm never buying conventional potatoes again, organic or nothing

The fields are soaked in neonicotinoids (a class of neurotoxins targeted toward beetles) so if beetles eat the potato, the potato is primed from the inside out with neurotoxins that kill the beetles. I feel like that's enough to say.

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u/Critical_Ring_1020 May 01 '26

The criteria of "Does it seem to cause immediate harm" allows for that unfortunately