Ploughing facilitates pollution run-off, erosion and release of greenhouse gases. ... Organic farming can pollute water and contaminate food; traditional farming use less herbicide, but plough more and low-input farming uses fewer chemicals, but more land. ...
While chemical pollution has been the scourge of the 20th century, biological pollution from GMO crops poses even more hazards as we enter the new millennium. ... These herbicide tolerant crops will likely lead to more pesticides in our food, drinking water, and the environment. ...
"We improve our favourite plants and animals "and how few they are "gradually by selective breeding; now a new and better peach, now a seedless grape, now a sweeter and larger flower, now a more convenient breed of cattle. We improve them gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative and ou...
