Sentences with phrase «in less pesticide»

Fraley and Van Eenennaam argued that genetically modified food has not shown any acute health issues, is resulting in less pesticide use and could be a useful tool in solving food security issues.

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Hemp phytoremediates contaminated soils, uses much less water to grow than corn, soybean, and cotton, and it doesn't need herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides to grow successfully; hemp does all of this while producing more material in it's twelve or so feet of sun stretching life.

I opt for Imperfect Produce's organic box each week in the hopes that I am contributing less to the use of chemicals and pesticides in agricultural use, and getting the rescued vegetables box each week makes me optimistic that I am helping to alleviate food waste in the United States.

In fact, while some composting methods have been shown to degrade certain pesticides, heavy metals are an elemental contaminant that does not degrade into smaller, less harmful molecules during the composting process.

This is an open access paper «Higher antioxidant concentrations and less cadmium and pesticide residues in organically - grown crops: a systematic literature review and meta - analyses.»

Wild blueberries contain less sugar per serving, are twice as high in antioxidants, and are even usually always grown without pesticides and herbicides, even if they're not organic because they're wild harvested and not subjected to traditional farming methods.

NZ — and pending election campaigners, please take note - increased global demand for organics = clear business rationale to encourage more organic farming and less conventional pesticide usage in NZ = > world leader in organic produce business opportunity here?

The vote that was won called for reductions in pesticide and sugar levels in baby foods and that the recommended age of use be not less than 6 months.

Organic baby food is known to have lesser chemical contents than the food cultivated in the «traditional» process, i.e., using chemical fertilizers, pesticides etc..

In both the developed and developing worlds, these farmers rapidly rebuilt the fertility of their degraded soil, which then allowed them to maintain high yields using far less fertilizer and fewer pesticides.

Pregnant female lab mice received the brew in their drinking water at four concentrations, from 400 parts per million (ppm) down to less than 0.04 ppm — equivalent to one drop of pesticide in 500 bathtubs of water, Porter says.

Overall, pesticides were less common in so - called groundwater, such as that in wells, although 33 percent of deep wells that tap aquifers contained one or more of the chemicals.

Previous research has shown that foraging honey bees that ingested neonicotinoid pesticides, crop insecticides that are commonly used in agriculture, were less likely to return to their home nest, leading to a decrease in foragers.

* Fourteen other pesticides were found in more than 2 percent, but less than 8 percent, of all foods sampled.

It cited the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture data that found «no concerns for chlorpyrifos in food, with the pesticide detected in less than 1 [percent] of samples.»

But Peter Hurst of the World Wide Fund for Nature says the limit could be achieved at less cost by inducing farmers to use fewer pesticides, as has been done in Sweden.

In many cases they need to apply at least one pesticide spray, which makes planting of Bt varieties less attractive.

By comparison, in the new study, children with mothers who lived less than one mile from fields treated with organophosphate pesticides during pregnancy were about 60 percent more likely to have autism than children whose mothers did not live close to treated fields.

MONDAY, May 17, 2010 (Health.com)-- Children exposed to higher levels of a type of pesticide found in trace amounts on commercially grown fruit and vegetables are more likely to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than children with less exposure, a nationwide study suggests.

AeroFarms in Newark, New Jersey, created indoor vertical farms that use 95 percent less water than traditional (horizontal) farms and no pesticides, herbicides, or soil.

Children exposed to higher levels of a type of pesticide found in trace amounts on commercially grown fruit and vegetables are more likely to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than children with less exposure, a nationwide study suggests.

Bear in mind that I live in the EU and probably will be eating spinach from Spain (just checked at the local grocery) so maybe just maybe this research considered the plants cultivated somewhere else (that is the US) or maybe now less pesticides are used (probably more).

Organic and truly sustainable agriculture has more nutrients and less toxic pesticides than any other method of growing food in the USA.

So if you eat a lot of cholesterol foods, your liver just makes less cholesterol.We are thinking now that the tables set for healthy cholesterol levels are maybe inaccurate, its been know for years for example that older folk with high cholesterol actually live longer and more healthy lives than those with low or medically corrected cholesterol.If we could stay away from junk food with its sugar, oils and even chemical pesticides, take in less calories than we burn and eat a very basic diet, like that of a hunter gatherer, we may be in the best shape of our lives.

The veggie meats are cholesterol - free, relatively low in saturated fat, free of trans - fat, may contain that extremely important fiber (meat has zero fiber), may be less calorie - dense, and are generally free of dangerous contaminants and the worst of the pesticides, etc..

Wild blueberries contain less sugar per serving, are twice as high in antioxidants, and are even usually always grown without pesticides and herbicides, even if they're not organic because they're wild harvested and not subjected to traditional farming methods.

Car exhaust, secondhand smoke, flame retardants, plastic packaging, heavy metals, pesticides, exogenous hormones in conventional meat and dairy, BPA - coated receipts... Unless you're living in a virgin forest, you're going to come into contact with some less - than - optimal chemicals pretty much every day.

In other words, plants that are doused with pesticides and grown in soils depleted of minerals and nutrients are likely to contain less healthy organosulfurIn other words, plants that are doused with pesticides and grown in soils depleted of minerals and nutrients are likely to contain less healthy organosulfurin soils depleted of minerals and nutrients are likely to contain less healthy organosulfurs.

Candida overgrowth and invasion happens when normal bacterial flora is killed by: antibiotics, processed foods, diet high in sugars, alcohol and yeast, stress, mercury in vaccinations and silver amalgams, pesticides sprayed on non-organic produce, birth control pills - a woman's natural hormonal pattern has more oscillating levels of progesterone and estrogen which is a less desirable environment for yeast overgrowth.

Unfortunately leafy greens (and I eat tons of them) and other magnesium rich foods have been becoming less and less rich in magnesium over the years, as the soil becomes depleted by chemical fertilizers, and overloaded with pesticides and more.

«The amount of pesticide residues that an average person ingests throughout an entire year is even less than the amount of those «harmful» substances in one cup of coffee... Unfounded fears about the dangers of pesticide residues on fruit and vegetables may stop many consumers from buying these fresh, healthful foods.

They found that vegans were significantly less polluted than omnivores regarding a whole list of carcinogenic industrial toxins and pesticides — even after controlling for age and weight, which makes the difference in contamination even more dramatic, because, of course, the vegans had less body fat.

It's one of the goodies on the Clean Fifteen list, meaning it's less likely to have been exposed to pesticides in chemicals during the growing process.

It's worth noting that fluoride in water, toothpaste, pesticides, Teflon, etc. absolutely nukes vitamin A levels in the skin, driving up your requirements for A. It's possible that in a much lower - toxin world, we would require much less vitamin A that we seem to in order to avoid acne.

I'm sure it applies to cat food as well: How to grade your dog's food: Start with a grade of 100: 1) For every listing of «by - product», subtract 10 points 2) For every non-specific animal source -LRB-» meat» or «poultry», meat, meal or fat) reference, subtract 10 points 3) If the food contains BHA, BHT, or ethoxyquin, subtract 10 points 4) For every grain «mill run» or non-specific grain source, subtract 5 points 5) If the same grain ingredient is used 2 or more times in the first five ingredients (i.e. «ground brown rice», «brewerâ $ ™ s rice», «rice flour» are all the same grain), subtract 5 points 6) If the protein sources are not meat meal and there are less than 2 meats in the top 3 ingredients, subtract 3 points 7) If it contains any artificial colorants, subtract 3 points 8) If it contains ground corn or whole grain corn, subtract 3 points 9) If corn is listed in the top 5 ingredients, subtract 2 more points 10) If the food contains any animal fat other than fish oil, subtract 2 points 11) If lamb is the only animal protein source (unless your dog is allergic to other protein sources), subtract 2 points 12) If it contains soy or soybeans, subtract 2 points 13) If it contains wheat (unless you know that your dog is not allergic to wheat), subtract 2 points 14) If it contains beef (unless you know that your dog is not allergic to beef), subtract 1 point 15) If it contains salt, subtract 1 point Extra Credit: 1) If any of the meat sources are organic, add 5 points 2) If the food is endorsed by any major breed group or nutritionist, add 5 points 3) If the food is baked not extruded, add 5 points 4) If the food contains probiotics, add 3 points 5) If the food contains fruit, add 3 points 6) If the food contains vegetables (NOT corn or other grains), add 3 points 7) If the animal sources are hormone - free and antibiotic - free, add 2 points 8) If the food contains barley, add 2 points 9) If the food contains flax seed oil (not just the seeds), add 2 points 10) If the food contains oats or oatmeal, add 1 point 11) If the food contains sunflower oil, add 1 point 12) For every different specific animal protein source (other than the first one; count «chicken» and «chicken meal» as only one protein source, but «chicken» and «'' as 2 different sources), add 1 point 13) If it contains glucosamine and chondroitin, add 1 point 14) If the vegetables have been tested for pesticides and are pesticide - free, add 1 point

This ingredient is commonly found in many flea control products because it is believed to be less toxic than other pesticides, but it is still effective in repelling insects, including fleas.

The EPA suggests the following resources: • The National Pesticide Information Center has collated information for consumers in the Least Toxic Pest Control Guide • Less - Toxic Product List, a resource guide by Our Water, Our World

I was at Aldo Leopold's «Shack» in Baraboo, Wis.; at the World Food Prize Foundation conference in Des Moines; and then out in the fields of Ames, Iowa, where a sustainable - agriculture team at Iowa State University is showing how to grow bountiful crops of soybeans and corn with far less fertilizer and pesticide than is used in the standard industrial - style pattern of planting.

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Air and water are cleaner and pesticides less toxic than a few decades ago, at least in some parts of the world.

Not only does organic production help reduce public health risks, mounting evidence shows that food grown organically are rich in nutrients, such as Vitamin C, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus, with less exposure to nitrates and pesticide residues in organically grown fruits, vegetables, and grains when compared to conventionally grown products.

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Hey Canadian green fingers, environmental activist (and TreeHugger eco-hero) David Suzuki wants to find Canada's best pesticide - free lawns and gardens, plus your story, in 100 words or less, about how you made everything

There were few repercussions in the US because of earlier US efforts to reduce and end malaria in the US, but this action soon led to banning DDT in many less developed countries where malaria was prevalent and is much more effectively controlled by using DDT than any other pesticide.