| I think that there is plenty of evidence that all pesticides kill animals, and that some in particular can do serious damage on humans. I can't see why this should be controversial at all. The less we'll need to use to obtain our goals, the better. Of course there are other million ways to harm birds. Don't make me start talking about Malta or Lebanon hunters. Maltese poachers kill or capture up to 200,000 migratory wild birds every year And is much worse. The ciphers of illegal hunting are sobbing. Between 11 and 36 millions! of migratory birds could be killed on the entire Mediterranean each year: raptors, storks, falcons, herons, anything with feathers, protected or not https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c... ... but the problem here are the farms, sure. > Even organic farms use fertilizer, the runoff of which is far bigger contributor to ecosystem destruction than pesticides So it is a tie? Organic farms use fertilizers, bad. Other farms use fertilizers, equally bad. The difference is that hedges and nature tolerated around organic farms acts as a buffer in part eating part of this effluent. This may not apply necessarily in other farms. |