515413906 e628a425bcPutting pesicides on your is bad because… pesticides are bad, right? I’ve known this for a long time because I remember seeing a ‘Keep off the !” pesticides warning on a neighbours and asking my mother about it. All she could tell me, really, was that pesticides were poison. I remember being quite confused as to how pesticides could hurt me but not the /. Well, here’s some interesting little bit sized facts about pesticides:

  • who live in homes where pesticides are used are twice as likely to develop brain cancer than with pesticide- yards. (via)
  • People who work with pesticides (including pesticides used on lawns and in gardens) have an increased risk of fertility problems, such as an increase in spontaneous abortion and miscarriage as well as increased risk of having a with birth defects (such as cleft lip and palate, spina bifida, limb anomalies). (via)
  • Workers exposed over a long period to pesticides have shown problems with information (ie. confusion) and have increased risk of developing Parkinson’s Disease.(via)
  • In the womb and into early infancy is linked to increased risks of some cancers (particularly leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and neuroblastoma) and birth defects. (via)

So if all these terrible things are possible with pesticide use, why on earth do people use them? Is having a healthy worth all the poison and risk?

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