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The social lesson of soil waste is that no man has the right to destroy soil even if he does own it in fee simple.--Henry Wallace, Soils and Men, USDA, 1938

We should think of soils as alive and breathing.

Myth: "Organic pesticides can't hurt people"
Nicotine sulfate, an extract of tobacco plants, is more [immediately] toxic than the infamous DDT. Pyrethrum [chrysanthemum flower extract] is more poisonous than [the notorious] malathion...[BUT] botanical insecticides differ from most synthetic pesticides in one important respect...They do not accumulate in the environment [or] travel higher in the food chain...