Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming
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"There are over 20 chemicals commonly used in the growing and processing of organic crops that are approved by the US Organic Standards... Not only are organic pesticides not safe, they might actually be worse than the ones used by the conventional agriculture industry. Canadian scientists pitted ‘reduced-risk’ organic and synthetic pesticides against each other in controlling a problematic pest, the soybean aphid. They found that not only were the synthetic pesticides more effective means of control, the organic pesticides were more ecologically damaging, including causing higher mortality in other, non-target species like the aphid’s predators."
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elsueco 10 years, 9 months ago
Thanks to Razorback for setting me on the link clicking path to finding this article.
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Razorback 10 years, 9 months ago
You are welcome. Thanks for sharing this gem as I had not seen it yet.
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