"paghat" wrote in message
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The bacillus can permanently retard beetle populations keeping their
populations indefinitely in decline so that the need to fight them becomes
lessoned year by year, & the temptation to use toxins eventually reduced
to none.

This requires a thinking process which extends beyond 15 minutes. Not
applicable in many cases. :-) Bugs cause people to become irrational. People
will plant trees, knowing full well they may take 5 years to look good.
They'll slowly put away $$$ for retirement or their kids' college. They'll
budget 3 years out to buy a boat or a bunch of woodworking equipment. All
require long term thinking, and patience.

But, unfortunately, certain organic bug control methods seem to have
emotional alarms attached to them. So, even if you show people 10 ag college
studies indicating that Bt works nicely (but takes longer than 3 days), they
simply shut down and won't consider it. The bugs must vanish NOW. And,
anyone who suggests completely effective non-chem alternative is a
tree-hugging fanatic.

According to our guvmint, about 25% of non-organic farmers are behaving like
tree-hugging fanatics whenever possible. The reason is simple: Unlike some
of the air-head home gardeners who think they're "informed" because they
read the back of the Ortho container, farmers HAVE to read in order to stay
in business.