pesticide

Arsenic amount depends on where the rice is grown (largely based on historical pesticide use).

But even more - what has pesticide use got to do with top-soil loss?

However, I buy them when I can primarily because of my concerns with pesticide and fertilizer overuse.

Bringing up Monsanto's pesticide in that interview was disingenuous, not to mention off-topic.

Company want to improve plant, they have 2 choices: a) make it more resistant to pest b) make it more resistant to pesticide 2.

Most individual markets (such as seeds, fertilizer, pesticide, etc.) need specialized solutions.

A GMO plant might require no pesticide but use more herbicide.

Good for plants, bad for me, as I have not been genetically modified to eat crops with layers of pesticide on them.

What we have is mostly adequate food supplies, and that only until inevitable fossil fuel shortages cut into fertilizer and pesticide production.

I've never seen the evidence that you can successfully run a high-yield zero-pesticide farm.

But organic agri necessarily uses _more_ pesticide and fertilizer.

I think over the next few years data + machine learning will make things like pesticide application, irrigation, fertilizer, and planting incredibly more efficient.

Some are routinely more contaminated with pesticide residue than others, but some are badly contaminated (google "dirty dozen" pesticide).

So between "a lot of pesticides", "even more pesticides applied by industry that tries to cheat you into thinking they're not using pesticides" the "one pesticide" solution suddenly doesn't sound that bad.

"Cultivation ease" is a basket of traits, ripening all at once (terrible for taste and nutrition), plant height, disease/pest resistance, pesticide tolerance (Monsanto's world famous "roundup ready" crops) etc.