Toxins - Pesticides

Agricultural pesticides are chemicals used to eliminate or control a variety of agricultural pests that can damage crops and livestock and reduce farm productivity. Although the pesticides eliminate or control many insects, weeds, bacteria’s, rodents, fungi, mold, and mildew, they harm agricultural workers and their unborn children! The pesticides have been linked to infertility, suicidal depression and the most horrific birth defects imaginable (brain damage, etc.)  Pesticides are indeed a public health concern, and many of us humans carry high levels of pesticides in our bodies already. I read recently that the average American child between the age of six and eleven carries four times the acceptable level of pesticides called organophosphates (known to cause nerve damage.) To prevent people from carrying high levels of pesticide would be for us to make our food, our air, our water, and our soil free from toxic pesticides. Organic food would be the best food to consume because organic food is food that is produced using methods that do not involve pesticides. Organic food is more expensive, but its worth saving your life right? 

Bremner, Moyra. "Committing Pesticides." Print.

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