Thread: pesticides

when i was still at school i did a project at on pesticedes....(we had to create a survey and i chose pesticides as the topic) i was horrified to discover that out of everyone who ansered the survey, which was approximately 80 people, only 3 did not use pesticedes in their work/home/garden!!!! what??

do u use pesticides? do u think they are neccessary?? dont u think they are more harmful than the actual pests?? are pests actually that bad to live with??

YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE PESTICIDES! There are natural "pesticides". Do you think aboriginal people didn't have pests? Of course they did. Only they used a farming technique known as polyculture. It is where many differnet veggies are grown together, not just a field of wheat, a field of corn, etc. This keeps the pests away because there are some pests that love corn but not wheat, so if there is wheat where this is corn they won't come. That is the whole point. Pesticides = death of ecosystem.

you r right, but the sad reality is that the majority i find use chemical pesticides, poisonous ones that are harmful to themselves and the environment, i hate pesticides!

lets polute this planet and when we cant live here we move to another planet and keep up our work there and when nature is back on the road on earth we go back and finish what we started

OK, so we let Zelos perfect livable conditions on Mars while we clean up this mess. By the time he is finished, we may have this mess sorted out. What about that?

haha, maybe we should just encourage the self destruction of man so we can all die and do the earth a favour! u didnt say what your take on pesticides is zelos?? are u a user? 8)

Pesticides can cause difficulties and some harm to some of the environment. But it's ill-advised to go ballistic over them without an objective cost-benefit analysis. The ban on DDT in the early 70s is arguably responsible for near 100,000,000 deaths. (Not a typo -- 8 zeros....) It's carcinagic properties were greatly over stated, bordering on junk science at the best and fraud at the worst. It's deleterious effect on birdlife was kinda valid but largely exaggerated. How's that for a black hole of a cost-benefit trade-off?

I don't need pesticides.. my green thumb is developed enough I understand the relationships between various plants and their pests.

For example: Serious aphid problem? Buy a few hundred lady-bugs (about $5 here in Canada) and let them loose in your garden - they'll stick around as long as there's aphids to feed them.

I don't really support the use of pesticides.. but I havent' really spoken out, either. I simply choose not to poison my garden... it's healthy enough without all the chemicals.

I do not use pesticides, there are enough predators around to keep them pesky pesks under control, - it's bloody cats I'd like a spray for (especially that damn moggy of hers...).

Originally Posted by Megabrain

I do not use pesticides, there are enough predators around to keep them pesky pesks under control, - it's bloody cats I'd like a spray for (especially that damn moggy of hers...).

There are plants you gan get for that.. but whether or not they work I'm not sure. Just have a sprinkler handy.. lol.

My family have an alotment and wwe use zero pesticides, we don't have that much of a problem though

Originally Posted by AmberEyes

Originally Posted by Megabrain

I do not use pesticides, there are enough predators around to keep them pesky pesks under control, - it's bloody cats I'd like a spray for (especially that damn moggy of hers...).

There are plants you gan get for that.. but whether or not they work I'm not sure. Just have a sprinkler handy.. lol.

Where can I get one that sprays molten lead at 1200MPH?

What you need MB is a dog, a mans best friend.

We never used pesticides in the garden when i was a kid, but i know that most of my food has been grown with the help of pesticides. Organic is still very expensive.