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Chemical-free farming experiment
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Dennis Avery always makes me think. In a recent piece titled Environmental news, Avery, senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC and an environmental economist, questioned themost recent President’s Cancer Report. Quoted in the report was Sandra Steingraber, biologist and author of the book Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment” who said
“I believe it is time for a new human experiment. The old experiment is that we have sprayed pesticides which are inherent poisons . . . throughout our shared environment. They’re in our amniotic fluid . . .They’re in our mothers’ milk. What is the burden of cancer that we can attribute to these poisons in our agricultural system? We won’t really know the answer until we do the other experiment, which is to take the poisons out of our food chain, embrace a different kind of agriculture, and see what happens.”
Dennis Avery suggested that Dr. Steingraber’s take a look at Africa. He said we’ve actually been running a long-term experiment on chemical-free farming there for about 5,000 years. As he points out, it is not working so well. . .
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