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To: haqihana who wrote (49829)	5/1/2000 9:51:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

haqihana, The early 50s were probably times of truly irrational exuberance regarding the feeling that we could totally control nature. Chlorinated pesticides, cloud seeding, the glory days of flood control through watershed engineering. At that time the idea that we weren't mature masters but the equivalent of kids playing with fire ... was fringie, the province of crackpots and animists. But we learned some since then. I respect your distaste of having food that has been treated with agrochemicals - and I note that there is a thriving cottage industry of "organically raised" foods emerging. But I think that the "organig food" industry will remain a specialty market, since the price per unit will be higher than for sprayed crops. Organic gardening is practical, but organig ag on a large scale will yield expensive product since more labor is needed and crop losses will be more of a crapshoot. Fwiw, my lawn and garden see a bare minimum of chemical grooming agents. Fertilizer for the short stuff twice a year, and I do have some broadleaf weder that I've been using because I lost the battle against Oxalis using just one of those snake-tongue weeders.