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Next, more harmful chemicals are sprayed on fruits and vegetables, like pesticides and herbicides, to kill weeds and bugs.
This man, this "lunatic farmer," doesn't use any pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified seeds.
So it turns out that the very same technology is also being used to grow new lines of corn, wheat, soybean and other crops that are highly tolerant of drought, of flood, of pests and pesticides.
The Center for Disease Control in the U.S. says we have 219 toxic pollutants in our bodies, and this includes preservatives, pesticides and heavy metals like lead and mercury.
Tyrone Hayes: It was a surprise to me as well that I would be talking about pesticides, that I'd be talking about public health, because, in fact, I never thought I would do anything useful.
And I believe, many scientists believe that pesticides are an important part of that decline.
Perhaps there are fewer pesticides in the cities than there are in [rural] areas.
I'm not one of the many researchers around the world who's looking at the effects of pesticides or diseases or habitat loss and poor nutrition on bees.
It ties in with small-scale farmers in terms of no pesticides, no fertilizers.
Plus I got tired of driving 45 minutes round trip to get an apple that wasn't impregnated with pesticides.
And then there's pesticides.
After World War II, we started using pesticides on a large scale, and this became necessary because of the monocultures that put out a feast for crop pests.
Recently, researchers from Penn State University have started looking at the pesticide residue in the loads of pollen that bees carry home as food, and they've found that every batch of pollen that a honeybee collects has at least six detectable pesticides in it, and this includes every class of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and even inert and unlabeled ingredients that are part of the pesticide formulation that can be more toxic than the active ingredient.
Plant bee-friendly flowers, and don't contaminate these flowers, this bee food, with pesticides.
So let the small act of planting flowers and keeping them free of pesticides be the driver of large-scale change.
It uses lots of pesticides, lots of fertilizer, lots of water.
And much like Rachel Carson brought to attention the fact that pesticides were harming human health, "Under the Dome" stamped into the popular consciousness that air pollution was leading to one million premature deaths every year in China alone.
This furry little creature is a fresh young bee halfway emerged from its brood cell, and bees right now are dealing with several different problems, including pesticides, diseases, and habitat loss, but the single greatest threat is a parasitic mite from Asia, Varroa destructor.
Pesticides used both on commercial beehives and agricultural crops to ward off parasites could be getting into the food and water that honeybees consume.
Researchers have even found that some pesticides damage the honeybees' homing abilities.
To combat it, we spray pesticides that do grave damage to other species, including amphibians and birds.
But they are increasingly displaced by modern agriculture, which promotes tillage, monocropping and the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides which degrade the land and turn it into a net emitter of greenhouse gases.
We can't keep feeding our kids pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics and hormones.
One of my favorite facts is that U.S. agriculture uses 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides every year.
The USDA allows these antibiotics, these hormones and these pesticides in our food supply, and the USDA paid for this ad in Time magazine.
In the haste to grow more, sell more, 4,000 years of agriculture in a country of rich natural resources is spoiled by the overuse of chemicals and pesticides.
We had no fruit and hardly any meat to sell, as none that was sent to the lab passed our zero tolerance test towards pesticides, chemicals, antibiotics and hormones.
The top three killers of bees are agricultural chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, fungicides; diseases of bees, of which there are many; and habitat loss.
So the first one, pesticides.
We thought there would be less pesticides in areas where bees are doing better.
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