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Pesticides & herbecides in general are just not safe at the moment and it's been clear they having been causing lots of health problems.

A lot of people, especially the farmers themselves & people living close to the farms get way too high amounts of pesticides in their system. And I also don't trust the safe amounts allowed are actually properly tested over a lifetime.

Causing all kinds of issues, among parkinsons and such, take France for instance: https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2021/06/vineyard-...



This site seems to promote organic agricultural practices as pesticide-safe but organic farming uses some of the most dangerous pesticides (e.g copper sulfate) precisely because of the anti-scientific requirement that anything used must be of "natural" origin, which is just the naturalistic fallacy. The bias here is clear.




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