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Effect of Intensive Farming on the Danube

Description:For decades now, the EU's Common Agriculture Policy has subsidized intensive farming methods and the use of herbicides, fertilizers and pesticides. These chemicals break down very slowly. If they're release into the Danube up river to Germany and Austria, they will eventually find their way into the water downstream. But there are alternative ways: organic farming. (6:23)

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