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Malnutrition

The Hungry Child

According to UNICEF, 1.1 million children this year are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition, up from one million last year.

Artificial nutrition

All hybrids and GM crops need high quantities of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Given the contamination of heavy metals like cadmium, chromium, lead, arsenic and such others present in chemical fertilizers, this becomes a serious problem. Crops produced with such chemicals are not only heavily contaminated with pesticide residue and heavy metals, thereby losing the potential benefits of the artificial nutrition addition, they also damage the soil