U.S government wants imported food to have same health standards U.S food does

[the2real4mafol]

Kasz216 said:

the2real4mafol said:
Agriculture without chemical pesticides in India
~ http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/earthrise/2013/07/201377990322734.html

It has actually proven to be very successful.

In one very specific region with a very specific ecoculture.  It's not guranteed, and in fact highly unlikely that such methods would be successful everywehre.

There is only one real way to gurantee pesticides not being needed to be used on a world level....

and you've already discounted it.

GMOs.

The Momsanto Corn you hate so much that has had numerous scientific studies done on it that show it does no harm to humans has lowered pesitcide use by 45%.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/fewer-pesticides-farming-with-gmos/

http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/gmcrops/2013GMC0002R.pdf

 

Your anti-sceince, anti-logic agenda is basiclly handicapping what you want to happen.

 

The above article puts it best...

“I find it so tragic that, by and large, crop biotechnologists and farmers want to reduce their pesticide use, and yet the method we think is most sustainable and environmentally friendly has been dismissed out of hand.” He pauses as he recalls the event and says, “There is no scientific justification for it—it is just as if there is a high priest who decided, ‘Thou shalt not be GMO.’ ”

I'm not anti-science, i'm just cautious about newer technologies like GM abit like the Amish are. Not every new technology is beneficiary to us. And i'm sorry if i don't like massive corporations but there's no reason to trust them especially with food and i don't like how they have a monopoly either, while at the same time bribe their way into congress. It ain't right. Let ordinary farmers do it on their own scale. 

And if you watched the video, they didn't stop using pesticides. They just used natural pesticides instead of chemical ones and unsuprisingly it worked. In part because the ground water was not being polluted anymore. And there's no reason not to try farming sustainably like those Indians did on a small scale in other countries at first. If it didn't work elsewhere, then stick to the way we are accustomed. Just a bit of trial and error.