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by dj_mc_merlin 1807 days ago
> It was pesticide free because of you put chemicals on the plants it would get into the water and hurt the fish.

Funny how on a smaller human scale ("our bass will die and our food production will be in danger"), the problem and solution seem obvious. Once you scale it up to world terms, where you're only lightly polluting a very large amount of animals, humans no longer instinctively comprehend it. Much like empathy and compassion only hold a group together up to a certain size.