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How salad became a major source of food poisoning ...
The reason vegetables are poisonous is because of the animal waste that is being used to grow plants. If there wasn't such a huge livestock industry, people wouldn't be using their excrement for fertilizer and our plants would be safer.
op00to
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It’s not animal waste. It’s human waste.
georgebarnett
on May 4, 2018
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Its both. Runoff from factory farms is a serious issue.
Fomite
on May 4, 2018
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There's also animals living in that field that
aren't
livestock.
ghostly_s
on May 3, 2018
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What are other natural fertilizer options?
logfromblammo
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Fallowing and plow-under, included in a rotation that includes nitrogen-fixers.
Application of volcanic tuff rock dust.
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