For nearly five decades, the public and farmers have been told that chemical pesticides are important for the agriculture and to supply the world's population, but this is not true. The dangers of pesticides could spoil the ecosystem which had sustained the agriculture for over thousands of years, destroying beneficial soil microbes and eliminating insects and predators that help. In addition, pests constantly mutate to build their resistant to the pesticides.Pesticide is harmful to your health as many of these synthetic poisons are specifically made to be broad-spectrum killers. The pest poison and their pollutant metabolites accumulate and persist in the animals and human body and adversely affect anatomical, behavioral, neurological and psychological development.
Pesticide label would not tell you about the dangers of pesticides. Before you use pesticide, you must know that:
- Poisons do not stay as expected, they drift.
- Chemical poisons do not differentiate what to kill. They kill all living things including humans.
- Pest builds up a resistance, but human do not.
- Some pesticide poisons are gathered in animal tissue, some are carcinogenic, but all are toxic.
- Usually all poisons are neurotoxins contain xylene as an unregistered inert”
- Many poisons contain contaminates or are changed into even deadlier poisons as they age or enter human bodies.
- The combined effect or synergistic danger of any 2 different pesticide poisons could be 1000 times more hazardous.
Who is highly at risk?
Individuals with Heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, allergy, asthma, and emphysema are at greater risk when expose to air pollutants, including pesticide poisons. Those with more than one condition above face a higher risk.
Infant and children below 3 years old are vulnerable to the danger of pesticides. Some pesticides have the ability to cause chronic or permanent damage to the immature, developing nervous system. Types of fungicide, such as hexachlorobenzene, was proven to cause numbness, muscular weakness, and convulsions in children exposed instantly after birth.
Pesticide poison exposure to pregnant women generates great concern as these chemicals are designed to cause destruction to the nervous system of the unborn.
