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Ban all pesticides? Every single one of them, synthetic and organic alike? That would be interesting. Pretending that biotic stresses simply don't exist is..
by gravelc 7y ago
Ban all pesticides? Every single one of them, synthetic and organic alike? That would be interesting.
Pretending that biotic stresses simply don't exist is....umm..novel.
- slips 7y agoLike the article touched on, there are regenerative practices that do not require pesticides. Frankly, pesticides are a human convenience. Utterly unnecessary for survival. If we weren't focusing on mass producing food, largely unused to directly feed people, we wouldn't need to spray everything with poison to keep things easy and profitable. Trying to find a "smarter" way to poison things is exactly the status quo and it will lead nowhere good.
- avip 7y agoI think OP is right suggesting this could be possible. But (my addition) only within scope of deconstructing the entire agriculture system as-is (and was for decades), and replacing it with something else. IMO this will be forced upon us (read: our children) anyhow. So better start early.