Soil grown using pesticides, herbicides, etc, literally DIES and becomes quite useless after repeated applications.

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The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates possible miscarriages of justice had also taken up the case - after repeated applications - and asked appeal judges to look again at Beck's trial.

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