Welcome back to The Regeneration Weekly, a newsletter delivering regenerative food and agriculture news to your inbox every Friday. Not a subscriber yet? Health: Since the emergence of the chemical industry after World War II, agriculture has grown increasingly dependent on herbicides and insecticides to control weeds, fungi, and pests that crowd cropland. In 1970,
To begin; the photo at the beginning is beyond misleading. That is not how US farmers spray crops, and almost no one sprays wheat with glyphosate. The odds that this is a U.S. farm spraying glyphosate is one in a million. Moreover, modern conservation practices have greatly reduced soil erosion in the United States, contrary to the suggestions of this article. Anyone who disagrees should research the dust bowl. Rather than intentionally misleading readers for personal gain and selling organic “magical beans”, why don’t you take a moment and acknowledge the fact that glyphosate has saved millions of lives from starvation across the globe. This nation is so far removed from its food sources it’s sad.
To begin; the photo at the beginning is beyond misleading. That is not how US farmers spray crops, and almost no one sprays wheat with glyphosate. The odds that this is a U.S. farm spraying glyphosate is one in a million. Moreover, modern conservation practices have greatly reduced soil erosion in the United States, contrary to the suggestions of this article. Anyone who disagrees should research the dust bowl. Rather than intentionally misleading readers for personal gain and selling organic “magical beans”, why don’t you take a moment and acknowledge the fact that glyphosate has saved millions of lives from starvation across the globe. This nation is so far removed from its food sources it’s sad.