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Chemicals and Crops with Mary Bateman

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Interview · North Dakota · Mary Bateman · NDNAEU 1 · NDNAEU 6

Themes: Land & stewardship, Food & plants

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Learn About questions

Why are chemicals added to crops? What research is there about how the chemicals added to the soil to grow crops can impact humans and nature negatively? How long does it take for the chemicals to be removed from the soil?

Learn From questions

What do I know about the way the food I eat is grown? Would the awareness of chemicals in the food I eat cause me to not eat the food? Why or why not?

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NDNAEU 1 & 6 Chemicals & Crops with Mary Bateman

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They could go into that and you know find out the harms and things can harm Fievel there was one late there was one man I was just thinking he was he had I he was treating his own tweet you know putting in and they was cheating with sweet so of course she took the cam chemicals you know and now you know for you know for growth and now he was a kind of stocking man you know and so afterwards well he got sick and that was from that chemicals and I said if that can do that a cookie got cancer of the liver and I said if that does that to them what is it you know because you water your fields and you got your fishes and you got yeah I mean all these things should be looked after you know see and I really think a lot more research should have been going on before they even thought of you know just didn’t coming up I mean that’s the way I don’t get it just coming up and just you know doing something that would hurt I think you know people you know and I can she knows yeah they should do a lot of study you know and I was just thinking oh my goodness I was sure boys who’d I couldn’t you know somebody of a getting interested in science and everything you know to bed and dairy and that’s going to take a lot of encouragement swear as - I mean for there are people to push in my hand and help them you know to get ahead then

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