The big taboo in agriculture: Why do we need pesticides?
To make the work of farmers easier?
In China, workers pollinate the fruit trees by hand.
Why does agricultural policy risk such an unseless and expensive amount of work?
It has other objectives and priorities than protecting agriculture.
Or bees.
Or people.
An insurance against pests
“Farmers need pesticides to secure their crops and income”.
But why should they secure it with dangerous toxins?
Their incomes could also be secured with a pest insurance: Yield losses due to butterflies, mold and other natural pests would be reimbursed by the state, like the damages caused by lynxes, wolves and bears.
The costs of such an insurance would be too high? It would be the simplest, cheapest and most efficient way to reduce civilisation diseases. Pesticide contaminated food is the dumbest possible method of saving money.
The big taboo question in agriculture: What do we need pesticide industries fpr?
What can they do that farmers can’t? To produce food, we need arable land, rain, seeds, (green) manure, machines, farmers and their knowhow. Nothing more.
And pesticides, because they secure the yield?
With a best professional practice there are hardly any problems in the fields. Because the most profitable of all investments is professional competence.
The only real lack in agriculture is the lack of appreciation of the real experts in the field: With their images of an evil nature and of inept farmers, the chemical industres succeeded in denying the right to exist and the professional competence to the only food producers that are really needed.
Farmers don’t need pesticides.
They need a secure and fair income.
The agricultural policy entrusts the agricultural leadership to the chemical industries and pretends, that we cannot afford fair wages for the farmers, and even less a non-toxic food production. But only a gigantic pesticide industry, the astronomical bonuses of their managers and the enormous costs of civilization diseases.
A pest insurance is a win-win solution for all: For farmers, consumers and the environment.
Except for the pesticide industries. But the damages they cause are infinitely worse than the modest yield losses caused by beetles, butterflies and fungi.
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