Stop this nonsense!
Nonsense #2 :
Organic agriculture doesn't use pesticides
Using alarmist propaganda 
and "weeks without pesticides"
environmental activists have campaigned 
against pesticides for years.
Their alternative?
Buy organic! 
To promote the merits of organic products, 
environmentalists regularly state 
that organic agriculture doesn't use pesticides.
For example, in a campaign of Greenpeace France 
against pesticides, 
their director general, Jean-François Julliard, declared 
"organic agriculture doesn't use pesticides at all." 
But that's totally false. 
In fact, there are no fewer than 400 pesticides 
used by organic farmers,
including some which are classified "harmful for the environment",
"very toxic for aquatic organisms" or "dangerous for bees."
In total, French farmers use 21,000 tons of copper and sulfur, 
the main organic pesticides, every year.
A 2013 study by INRA, the French national research agency,
found that organic fruit growers spray apple orchards 
as many as 29 times a year.
Organic farmers, just like any other farmers, 
use insecticides and fungicides 
because their crops also need 
chemical protection against pests. 
In reality, an agriculture without pesticides doesn't exist.
