在过去十年间,以化学为基之农业所带来的环境污染与危害人类健康的危机,正广受大自大众的评击与讨论。
化学生物杀虫剂,已为人类带来了许多已知的急性或慢性药物并发症,并引发遗传性疾病,进而破坏自然界的生态平衡,甚至污染消灭我们与其他生物的食物链脱节。
大事投资开发单一农作物,只会减低土壤的寿命与肥沃度,最终土壤将严重酸性化,侵蚀土壤以致荒地遍布。
除此之外,太过依赖石油化农业及石油能源,将是一种高度浪费与缺少长远维持性,毕竟天然资源始终会有用尽的一天!
Few decades have already passed since the danger of “modern” agriculture both to our health and to our environment was seriously criticized.
Agro-chemicals (including chemical fertilizers and pesticides) are known to cause acute, chronic, and sometimes even hereditary illness to human being, destroying natural ecological balance, and polluting our food chain and water sources.
Exploitation of land use by large scale mono-cropping is also revealed to be a problem for it deprives soil of its fertility eventually leaving a compact, acid, eroded and barren land behind after continuous cultivation.
In addition, heavy dependency on fossil as energy source to operate big machinery and to transport perishable food stuff across the remote continents are highly wasteful and unsustainable since these resources are not unlimited.