Plants sick from pesticides
PROMOTION
Plants sick of pesticides
Author: Francis CHABOUSSOU.
295 pages.
The negative effects of pesticides on cultivated plants can go far beyond the consequences of ecosystem disruption. Francis CHABOUSSOU demonstrates that it is the very physiology of the cultivated plant that is disrupted by pesticides, making it more vulnerable to aggressors. He shows that the massive use of pesticides creates fragility in plants... which will lead to even greater use of these toxic substances in an attempt to reduce the new damage caused by this fragility.
This is the best possible illustration of the vicious circle into which intensive agriculture has led us over the past 60 years, relying on the illusory chemical crutch of pesticides to offset the imbalances it inevitably engenders.