pests more than just your younger brother
by Wes Jackson & Wendell Berry
The New York Times
January 4, 2009
Since the beginning of time, it seems like farmers have been using pesticides to grow their crops and to keep bugs from devouring them. Most farmers don't think twice about using pesticides but they harm more than just bugs; runoff gets into rivers and soil pesticides get everywhere. However, the farming industry is going downhill; the soil is being abused and eroding. This land will not bare crops. So where will we get our food?
If this keeps continuing our soil will run out. Granted that is a really long way down the road, but it's still plausible. Just think there's enough money for food, but no where to grow it. That would be awful and an unsolvable problem. Pesticides are contributing to the loss of soil, if only there was a way to substitute the pesticides for something else? I'm sure there someone out there know of a good substitute... all we have to is find that one person. Let's look.
Until next time...
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