Sentences with phrase «other synthetic pesticides»

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Fast - casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill added some spice to its long - running «Food With Integrity» sustainable farming campaign by teaming with Academy Award - winning design firm Moonbot Studios for The Scarecrow, an animated short film and accompanying mobile game created to increase consumer awareness of animal confinement, synthetic growth hormones, toxic pesticides and other fixtures of industrial food production.

Foods that contain synthetic fertilizers, antibiotics, pesticides and other additives won't be found on the menu.

Organic means produce and other organic ingredients in retail products are grown without the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, sewage sludge, genetically modified organisms or ionizing radiation.

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.

According to Organic.org, «organic produce and other ingredients are grown without the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, genetically modified organisms, or ionizing radiation.»

Synthetic chemicals (including pesticides and fertilizers) are not permitted other than those listed in Annex I of the National Standard for Organic and Bio-dynamic Produce».

Farmers will need to prove their land has been free of prohibited substances (synthetic pesticides and fertilizers) for a minimum of 12 months and must follow all other organic production standards to achieve transitional certification, including crop rotation, the fostering and conserving of biodiversity, and the avoidance of the use of genetic engineering.

According to USDA and many studies, organic baby food is not more nutritious than other types, but using organic baby food could reduce your child's exposure to synthetic pesticide residue.

The increased use of synthetic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals to attack unwanted organisms, has outpaced the rates of change in rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and other agents of global environmental change over the past 45 years, a new Duke - led analysis reveals.

Organic foods are often associated with fewer synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, but the USDA has created plenty of other requirements; to make the grade as a certified organic food.

You get higher quality produce in terms of nutritional quality and flavor, uncontaminated with toxic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, and other harmful chemical agents.

Clean food means certified organic or food that has been verified to be free of GMOs and other contaminants, including pesticides, herbicides, toxins, and synthetics.

Organic: Food that is grown as naturally as possible, without the use of added pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers and other chemicals is consumed as much as possible.

In the last few decades the obesity rates have grown alarmingly due to, among other factors, a variety of environmental causes such as food processing and the long list of chemicals, toxins, synthetic hormones, GMO, pesticides, herbicides introduced in our food.

Codex pertains to every bite - and kind of - food traded internationally and allows high doses of pesticides, veterinary drugs, synthetic hormones, contaminants, artificial sweeteners, and other dangerous compounds and processes (like mandated irradiation of food) while it forbids health claims for food.

Organic grass - fed beef has a prime nutritional profile, and it's free of pesticides, GMOs, synthetic growth hormones, toxins from moldy feed, carbon monoxide, and all the other junk you find in factory - farmed / CAFO meat.

Organic beef can not be confined in a feed lot, over-crowded in unsanitary conditions, nor exposed to artificial pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics, hormones, GMOs, or other synthetic contaminants.

«My instinct is that it only makes sense to prevent children's exposure to chemicals known to affect the nervous system, and those include pesticides, solvents, many volatile organic compounds, metals, PCBs, and thousands of other poorly tested synthetic chemicals now in commerce.

But here are a few things to keep in mind: organic dog foods often use human - grade protein sources and generally have fewer fillers (corn and wheat and their by - products) and no synthetic preservatives, pesticides, food coloring, or other additives, thereby reducing the number of potential allergens in your Frenchie's diet.

These foods should not be exposed to synthetic chemicals such as fertilizers, pesticides, or antibiotics during production, should not be from genetically modified organisms, and should meet other guidelines for storage, transport, and production.

Sustainable growth and harvesting procedures for organic products begins with soil, which must be free of prohibited substances, such as petroleum or sewage - based fertilizers, chemical pesticides, GMOs, antibiotics, hormones and other synthetics.

«While today's synthetic engineered repellents can be very effective, people worry about pesticides and carcinogens,» says Dave Campanella, national sales manager of Best Shot Pet Products, which manufactures a natural bug spray that repels bugs using a blend of tea tree, rosemary, sage, peppermint, citronella and other natural ingredients.

Farms are often very large, highly specialized, and run like factories with large inputs of fossil fuels, pesticides and other chemicals, and synthetic fertilizers derived from oil.

slashing and burning, mining, dousing in synthetic pesticides, biologically homogenizing (e.g. through invasive species), altering the chemical composition of the air and water, and through various other forms of pollution.

On the other hand, he said, while organic agriculture — farming without the use of synthetic pesticides or fertilizers — might have a lighter impact on the environment, he is skeptical about whether it can produce enough food.

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.