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This article describes an Israeli enterprise that sends grafted
vegetable seedlings all over the world. The objective is to avoid/
replace the use of harmful methyl bromide.

I've never even heard of methyl bromide!

It's used, ostensibly, to kill nematodes, but, basically, destroys the
soil ecology, and the ozone layer. It is used in vineyards (prior to
planting), and strawberry fields here in California. Its use is driven
by quarterly profits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_bromide
Bromomethane is readily photolyzed in the atmosphere to release
elemental bromine, which is far more destructive to stratospheric ozone
than chlorine. As such, it is subject to phase-out requirements of the
1987 Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances.

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