> As Hermit observed, conventional farming techniques can have adverse
> consequences for the biosphere (I'm presuming that pesticides running
> off into rivers being the sort of thing that was intended by that
> comment),
The other adverse consequence results when fertilizer runs off into
rivers and lakes; it causes massive algae blooms that consume the
oxygen and kill off the aquatic animal life.
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