... damaging crops, rather than chemicals. The Soil Association emphasizes that organic foods are produced using natural and traditional farming methods without the use of artificial fertilizers, insecticides, arsenic, tobacco dust or weed killers (Surgery Door, 1). Organic farmers use crop rotation to keep the soil fertile ... overall product is much more healthy, natural and appealing to the body. There are numerous benefits of organic farming for the environment, as well. Without pesticide or chemical use, the water contamination and health risks that occur elsewhere are eliminated. Crops...

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... battle with one so small as a corn borer, an insect with a predilection for our crops of corn. Applications of pesticides keep our crops free from such pests, but they also impact beneficial insects directly, songbirds indirectly, and human beings through runoff into water reservoirs. Biotechnologists may have a better solution: engineered corn that itself produces a natural pesticide. This ... eliminates the indiscriminate impact of spraying the toxin. Geneticists engineer the corn with a gene from the soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis; hence it is ... texture and nutritional cont...

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