(April 2, 2020 at 1:58 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Industrial chemistry or animals. No free lunch.But aren't chemical fertilizers (and pesticides) much more ecologically acceptable and safer than natural ones? It's well-known that organic farming uses more dangerous pesticides.
Besides, natural fertilizers are usually dead plants, because it's forbidden to use dead animals or animal excrement as fertilizers, because they might contain dangerous bacteria that can attack both humans and those animals, and which can survive being outside of host for some time. For similar reasons, though not quite as strong, it's safer to use synthetic fertilizers rather than dead plants.
