Sentences with phrase «most synthetic pesticides»

This includes most synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.

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Fruits and vegetables that are labeled as organic are grown without using most pesticides or fertilizers with synthetic ingredients, there is no irradiation treatment and the fertilizers that are used are natural.

Most conventional skin, personal and hair products on the market today contain ingredients such as: TEAs, DEAs, glycols, silicones, sulphates, parabens, synthetic colours, oils and flavourings, formaldehyde (or derivatives), insecticides, pesticides and ethoxylates, just to name a few.

Although certified organic products must be grown, processed and handled without the use of pesticides or most other synthetic chemicals, it is possible for organic crops to be inadvertently exposed to agricultural chemicals.

But before thinking about applying pesticides, gardeners can design (or re-design) their gardens to make the most of native plants that have evolved over eons to thrive in local conditions without synthetic aid or lots of water.

«Rice blast quickly learns how to get around synthetics — most humanmade pesticides are effective only for about three years,» Bais says.

Not all essential oils are created equal, and many are laden with synthetic oils, pesticides and toxins, so we get most of our edible tinctures, extracts, oils, etc. from this one quality source.

Thankfully, most herbs and spices are not in danger of industrial genetic modification, so organic certification is our go - to for insuring that our herbal goodies are grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, GMO seed stock, or irradiation.

Most importantly, it helps people feed themselves with the materials that they already have, without hooking them on an increasingly expensive dependency on chemical inputs and high - cost seeds that are bred to only work with synthetic herbicides and pesticides.

Most agriculture relies upon energy subsidies for transporting crops to market, running farm equipment, and the production of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides.

However, the number is probably closer to 25 - 30 % as they failed to include the «manufacture and use of pesticides and fertilizers, fuel and oil for tractors, equipment, trucking and shipping, electricity for lighting, cooling, and heating, and emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and other green house gases» and «still doesn't include a large portion of the fuel, the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, some of the nitrous oxide, all of the CFCs and bromines, and most of the transport» and methane emissions.