Pesticides
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After World War II, we started using
pesticides
on a large scale, and this became necessary because of the monocultures that put out a feast for crop pests.
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Next, more harmful chemicals are sprayed on fruits and vegetables, like
pesticides
and herbicides, to kill weeds and bugs.
This man, this "lunatic farmer," doesn't use any pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified seeds.
So it turns out that the very same technology is also being used to grow new lines of corn, wheat, soybean and other crops that are highly tolerant of drought, of flood, of pests and
pesticides.
The Center for Disease Control in the U.S. says we have 219 toxic pollutants in our bodies, and this includes preservatives,
pesticides
and heavy metals like lead and mercury.
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