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I agree we should research better and more efficient materials to use for pesticides and fertilizers, I am not saying we need to stick with 10th century growing practices here. Or even with the current crop of chemicals used. Im against the HYPE of the "Organics" crowd.
One of my pet peeves though is the outrageous exergerations that get made "Cancer causing agents" and "diseases causing thats", what they never tell you is that you would have to eat the product in its pure form by the pound for fourty years to get the lab results they report about. It all goes back to my bias against inaccurate, sensationalized science. Everything has to be exagerated to get the funding to back your pet theory to....its just a real mess. Red Dye #2 off the market due to it being a cancer agent, except that no human could drink enough soda with red dye #2 in it in a life time to have itr affect them, DDT was banned from use around the world because a "very few" species of birds had problems with their egs, instead 30,000 deaths world wide mostly of young children due to malaria that cannot be checked with DDT the cheapest most effective prevantive. Yes Im waaay skeptical of a lot of things,
especially when I see sensational headlines about the issues.
TL im not saying that Organicly foods are bad, especially if you can afford them, but please look at the research done about the actual proven results of their consistant use, or lack there of. On the other hand PA has a lot of agriculture and could be argued that they have a vested interest in promoting modern farming techniques too....who knows?
[ 11-07-2002, 04:02 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]
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