Chemical farming also increases yield per acre, freeing land for other uses or nonuses. As well, fewer people are required to work in agriculture, a physically hard profession. More of us are free to pursue other less physically demanding and possibly more intellectually satisfying professions. Organic agriculture reverses this positive trend and raises prices and decreases availability. The idea that farmers worry about their bottom lines at the expense of human health and the environment is an environmentalist myth.
Coffee is safe, and so are our fruits and vegetables.
The National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Association find no link between pesticide residues and cancer. The problem with the Environmental Protection Agency is that when it takes action based on politics, not science, it hurts farmers, consumers and the truth.