Pesticides are killing the world's soils

Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils by mlindner on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:21AM (#27368999)

Removing antibiotics use I think is cruel and wasteful as you're going to just instead cause culling of livestock and increased greenhouse gas emissions per piece of product from livestock.

Also "artificial pesticides" are better for the environment than "natural pesticides" for equivalent effect. Natural pesticides are less effective and more frequent spraying which has additional problems associated with it.

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Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils by yummypaint on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:44AM (#27369270)

Removing antibiotics as a cheap default option (as it is in the US) creates an economic incentive to ensure livestock health and welfare. In practice antibiotics are used mostly to compensate for unhealthy conditions and to increase yield (i think only by about %10 for milk, for instance). Keeping livestock on broad spectrum antibiotics continuously for their entire lives is not only medically unnecessary, but deeply irresponsible and a contributor to rising antibiotic resistance.

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Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils by mlindner on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:31PM (#27441936)

Antibiotics/vaccines are for exactly the purpose of "ensuring livestock health and welfare".

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