Unfortunately man cannot seem to learn from their past mistakes. In the 1940s, DDT was first introduced to the world. It was marketed as an insecticide that kill insects that fed on crops and spread disease. DDT was looked at as a holy grail, a saviour to all of our problems. Sadly this was proven wrong, in 1972 the United States banned DDT. The unknown risk associated with DDT were that it caused significant damage to wildlife around the world and was a suspected link to breast and liver cancer. (DDT). An example of pesticides that we use today would be Benomyl and Carbaryl. Both of these pesticides are known animal carcinogens and they cause birth defects in animals. Even if you don’t care about animals, you should know that they also affect
