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You seem to be implying that no one has successfully farmed without pesticides.

• lotsofpulp 2y ago
  Not at all. I am implying that if you know how to farm in a different manner than the current widely used methods and deliver enough food at an acceptable price to the population, then you should do it. But I suspect that people around the world who have decades of farming experience are paying for glyphosate for a reason.
  • legacynl 2y ago
    Just so you know that kind of reasoning is flawed. Farmers are perfectly capable of using less glyphosphate, but the problem is that their buyers pay them so little that it isn't cost effective to do anything other than spray glypho everywhere. With the health risks associated with glyphosphate, I assume a lot of farmers actually would love to stop using that shit.
    • lotsofpulp 2y ago
      My comments were not intended to insinuate that farmers were not physically capable of producing food without glyphosate. Clearly, a farmer is not going to work for a loss, so the context of what is possible (from the farmer’s perspective) is assumed to be within the existing business and political environment. Which is obviously that not using glyphosate makes your product priced too high.