An Agricultural Movement
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I hate bugs. All bugs, large and small. If it wasn’t for the fact that some are beneficial and have ecologically sound jobs to do, they should be wiped off the face of the earth. It’s all in the manner of how it’s done. Pesticides would do the job, killing the insects, but they kill the environment, too. What to do? We, as a planet ....
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Even so, pesticides have been used for centuries. In James Whorton’s book, Before Silent Spring, he describes agriculture before the Industrial Revolution. He writes that farmers in the 1800's used arsenic and sulphur to stop insects and molds from harming their crops. Even then it was known that arsenic caused skin lesions, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and swollen, painful hands and feet. In England in the late 1800's, arseni ....
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Number of words: 1735
Number of pages: 7 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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