Natural Plant Toxins vs. Synthetic Pesticide

March 27, 2008

I am reconsidering my ideas about pesticides or at

least certain of them, used for plants and fruits.

Apparently, many plants produce toxins that fail the

Ame's test:

Well, one might conclude, correctly, that our bodies

might at least have developed some resistance to these

older toxins than to the new synthetic ones. Why add

one more thing for our liver to deal with?

But it occurs to me that organic plants have been

developed to be resistant to insects, etc, which means

that they have developed new toxins. Who is to say

that these might not be as bad or worse than some of

the synthetic pesticides? After all, we need only go

and eat some types of mushroom or, for that matter,

acorns if we want to get the experience that " natural "

is not always safe.

I would appreciate if you can provide an intelligent,

non-dogmatic, discussion of this or can point me to

sources of such discussion.

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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

-WB Yeats

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