The Problem With Pesticides
Pesticides is a liquid to kill pests or weeds. About 5.6 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year. Sadly, about 25 million workers around the world, experience pesticide poisoning. Just because pesticides are cheap and easy, doesn’t mean we have to use them. We need to stop using pesticides. It kills bees, harms people, and contaminates our water. Pesticides can turn our world upside down.
The Evaporation of Bees
Pesticides kill bees which wastes farmers money because some farmers rely on bees for crops. Bees may be something that farmers rely upon and without bees the farmers’ crops can’t grow. This could lead to extinction “They are critical pollinators: they pollinate 70 of the around 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world. Honey bees are responsible for $30 billion a year in crops.” If bees went extinct, if you went to the store, half of the fruits and vegetables we have today would be there. Across the United States, beekeepers have lost 44% of their bee colonies from April of 2015 and April of 2016. Pesticides are the most common reason bees die. One in every three bites of food we consume relies on bees.
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Pesticides cause birth defects. In 2005 there were three severe birth defects in Florida caused by women who all worked for a company called Ag-Mart Produce. Birth defects are the leading cause of death for babies. “Study subjects included 569 heart defect cases and 785 non-malformed controls born from 1997 to 2006 whose mothers participated in a population-based case-control study.” This study is just from women in San Joaquin Valley, California. All of them were close to pesticides. Pesticides are mostly absorbed by your skin, which it is more effective on your skin than any other body
Pesticides is a liquid to kill pests or weeds. About 5.6 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year. Sadly, about 25 million workers around the world, experience pesticide poisoning. Just because pesticides are cheap and easy, doesn’t mean we have to use them. We need to stop using pesticides. It kills bees, harms people, and contaminates our water. Pesticides can turn our world upside down.
The Evaporation of Bees
Pesticides kill bees which wastes farmers money because some farmers rely on bees for crops. Bees may be something that farmers rely upon and without bees the farmers’ crops can’t grow. This could lead to extinction “They are critical pollinators: they pollinate 70 of the around 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world. Honey bees are responsible for $30 billion a year in crops.” If bees went extinct, if you went to the store, half of the fruits and vegetables we have today would be there. Across the United States, beekeepers have lost 44% of their bee colonies from April of 2015 and April of 2016. Pesticides are the most common reason bees die. One in every three bites of food we consume relies on bees.
Pesticides are Harmful to the Population …show more content…
Pesticides cause birth defects. In 2005 there were three severe birth defects in Florida caused by women who all worked for a company called Ag-Mart Produce. Birth defects are the leading cause of death for babies. “Study subjects included 569 heart defect cases and 785 non-malformed controls born from 1997 to 2006 whose mothers participated in a population-based case-control study.” This study is just from women in San Joaquin Valley, California. All of them were close to pesticides. Pesticides are mostly absorbed by your skin, which it is more effective on your skin than any other body