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"were causing significant environmental" -> Links to an article not even mentioning "significant". And they mention burning leaves of. How about not doing that

• Broken_Hippo 10y ago
  In addition to the burning, there are the effects of planting fields with non-gmo sugar beets. I don't think we can have the sugar production without sugar beets, and the old version either requires hand-weeding or more chemicals to be able to have a good harvest. Often those chemicals do more environmental harm than good. The problem with telling folks not to burn the fields is the same problem the sugar beet folks run into when told to hand weed the fields. It costs more and is harder work.