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The Skeptics Guide #852 - Nov 6 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Organic Manure

About 50 % of the food that we grow is fertilized with manure and compos and smaso, organic of sources of nitrogen. The other alf, in, roughly half, is with a chemical fertilizer, artificial fertilizer like industrial fertilizer for fixing nitrogen from the atmosphere. So what srelonke did was, now, if all they said was, we want to be independent of foreign sources of inputs to our agricultureis wer gin to maximise our organic sources of fertilizer? And then they just labelled an organic fertilizer. But it was just chemical fertilize. That's not whether w o first of all, e expressly made a health argument and an environmental argument, which is not

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