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Birds of Prey: Alternatives to Chemical Pesticides
Most health-conscious people insist on eating produce coming from farms where only organic pesticides have been used.
Birds of Prey: Alternatives to Chemical Pesticides
Most health-conscious people insist on eating produce coming from farms where only organic pesticides have been used. They do have a point. Chemical pesticides can poison the land, and the poison can also seep into the produce itself, passing it on to whoever eats it. Eating food that is poisonous to the body is not exactly a healthy choice.
There is something better than organic pesticides, however, and that is no pesticides at all. Mother Nature has her own way of dealing with pests that thrive on crops, and this is something that farmers in the Middle East have come to realize.
Farmers in the Middle East, particularly in Israel, have already turned away from using chemical pesticides for protecting their crops. Instead, they encourage birds of prey like barn owls, hawks and kestrels to live near their farms. These birds of prey hunt the rodents that damage the crops in a 24-hour cycle, with the kestrels doing their hunts during the daytime and the owls at night. It is an initiative that the Israelite farmers have started in the 1980s and Israel’s neighbors are quickly getting caught in the scheme.
It is definitely a laudable and admirable scheme. Chemical pesticides are poison to most organisms living in the affected area, not just to rodents and pests. These chemical pesticides kill whole populations of animals, not just pests, and damage fragile ecosystems. They can even poison our food and give us health problems.
Birds of prey, on the other hand, are natural pesticides. Rodents in farms are really their food. Even the rodents they prey on benefit from this because it helps in their evolutionary process. Using birds of prey as natural pesticides in farms is really just how Mother Nature meant it to be.
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