The term witchcraft may sound nuts here, but there's some truth to this. When you pour these chemicals on your plants you are relying on a substance sold to you by someone else and you don't fully understand what's in it or what it does, but the damage it causes is 10 fold the benefit you think you are getting. Like a "spell" or "potion", it backfires on you and it's highly destructive in ways you may not have considered. When you reject the use of these things, you end up with a garden that only gets better year after year as nature is the best medicine, relying on safe permaculture practices can take more time at the beginning to get the results you want, but you'll end up only magnifying your success year after year with less and less effort. Meanwhile those who relied on their "potions" have to keep buying more and more and continue to do damage until they have all but killed the soil and can no longer grow a decent plant. Not to mention the act of poisoning your own body from ingesting the foods grown this way.