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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Why women in India are farming with diverse plants – and without pesticides
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:17:04 +0100

My browser says the page can not be found. But I think the answer is very simple : If those women can do it under India's conditions and I can in cold, wet Ireland then it can not be difficult. My reason for growing crops without poison is simple too. I once in a former life taught a small course in bio- chemistry at a university. So I do know that man made chemicals are radically different from chemicals existing in nature and often extremely persistent in the environment and toxic for a wide variety of organisms. Grasses or insects are bio- chemically not very different from ourselves. It is just that our options for food are much wider than theirs. Spray roundup and you will kill plants, insects, earthworms and frogs. If we had been there at the time of spraying and we had to get all our food from that area completely we would get sick and die quite fast too. But instead our food most often comes from a huge area stretching thousands of miles that have not all been poisoned. So we live a bit longer.

Maybe ten years ago I saw the experiment being done here in Ireland. A farmer round-upted a field of grass and when this turned the typical orangey colour he put two cows with calves at foot on the field to eat the "hay". The calves died within a week but the cows lasted almost a month although they had to be carried of the field. They had trouble standing and looked like skeletons.

Why would you do something like that? There are no safe chemicals!
John

Why women in India are farming with diverse plants – and without
pesticides
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