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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by woodpanel on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:50PM (#27307385)
I've recently read that the word "pesticide" is a weaponized term, in that you wouldn't label human medicine that way, but for ideological reasons this reframing is done to a plant's medicine.

OTH nobody would use medicine daily and call that a natural state of being (unless you're acutally or chronically sick).

Our food supply depends on these plant-medicines becuase without our cultivated crops aren't strong enough to survive or yield significantly less.

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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by lettergram on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:53PM (#27307419)
It’s not a plant medicine... it’s a killer of pests.

“Weaponized term” doesn’t necessarily matter. I own a farm and agree our food supply is necessary on them. BUT I think the feds need to look into this. There are likely safer pesticides than others. My farm uses none.

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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by Marsymars on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:00PM (#27307531)
> OTH nobody would use medicine daily and call that a natural state of being (unless you're acutally or chronically sick).

Depending on source, roughly half of Americans regularly take prescription drugs. (Which I think is a crazy state of affairs.)

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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by jMyles on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:04PM (#27307591)
> OTH nobody would use medicine daily and call that a natural state of being

It's amazing how casually we throw around these "observations" which completely and conveniently memory hole our indigenous friends and neighbors, whose traditions of plant medicine nearly universally include routine relationships with plant medicines in sickness and in health.

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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by eCa on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:09PM (#27307672)
Pesticide: Pest (meaning should be obvious) combined with the same ’cide’ as in homicide, regicide or genocide. The term is not weaponized, it refers to a weapon.
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