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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Krowbar who wrote (38422)5/23/1999 12:17:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
There are lots of bad things that happen naturally, Del, and the potato famine in Ireland was one of them. However, the potato famine would not have been so disastrous if the very poor Irish people had not depended upon it as their main source of sustenance. Organic farmers use crops interspersed with each other as natural pest control. What agribusiness had done with its use of pesticides is encourage farming which is not good for the land, or the people who eat the food. Vast tracts of one crop grown several times a year, for example, are very hard on the soil.

Do you read any organic farming publications? There is a serious argument to be made that we do NOT need insect control--at least pesticides--in order to feed the masses. Organic farming is the fastest growing agricultural trend in California. Our affluent masses are willing to pay extra for crops grown without pesticides. Genetic engineering is the antithesis of organic farming, and from these early results with insects dying, seems like it opens a Pandora's box of potentially horrendous problems. We could, in fact, destroy the planet's ecology altogether, because there are many natural processes and natural interrelationships that we are tinkering with which we do not fully understand.
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