It is particularly when they are applied in excess that fertilizers are disadvantageous for food.
Specifically, fertilizers emphasize rapid growth and harvesting of lush shoots. They ignore other equally important life processes such as plant immunity. They therefore tend to be accompanied by pesticide applications, which control the problem but have environmental side effects such as residue.
No one founded organic food. Growing food organically, without the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, was the way food was grown before chemical fertilizers and pesticides were created, patented, and marketed.
Garden fertilizers and plant foods for healthy plant growth including bat and seabird guanos, beneficial soil microorganisms, liquid organic fertilizers, granular organic fertilizers, orchid food, African violet food and many more........
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Any character that is not favored by selection is disadvantageous e.g. loss of pollen tube in land environment .
Food produced in this way is called "organic".
Disadvantageous
Fertilizers, Manure, Plows, Etc.
Fertilizers, Manure, Plows, Etc.
Organic foods are grown without the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Intensive farming foods may or may not be grown using synthetic fertilizers and pesiticides.
An autoimmune response is always disadvantageous to an individual. This is because the person's immune system begins to attack itself.
M. N. Hall has written: 'Public confidence in fertilisers and in food quality and safety' -- subject(s): Congresses, Environmental aspects, Environmental aspects of Fertilizers, Fertilizers, Food, Food industry and trade, Quality, Safety measures
Because it has no pesticides, and is not grown using chemical fertilizers.