Pesticides
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And, in fact, there are the most
pesticides
in cities.
We know from the work of a very large and dynamic working team that, you know, we're finding a lot of different
pesticides
in the hive, and surprisingly, sometimes the healthiest hives have the most
pesticides.
In the 1960s, the misleadingly named “Green Revolution” introduced chemical fertilizers and
pesticides
and the damming of rivers to India.
And weatherproofing means complete control of incoming contaminants and pests, completely eliminating the need for the use of chemical
pesticides.
And some queens that survived the winter fell victim to the threats of spring, such as carnivorous plants, birds, and manmade
pesticides.
They even fight back with
pesticides
that purposefully poison wasps, and inadvertently impact a wide-range of local wildlife.
Well, basically, we dam it, we pollute it, we pour in pesticides, weedicides, fungicides.
Feed grain to herbivores,
pesticides
to monocultures, chemicals to soil, chicken to fish, and all along agribusiness has simply asked, "If we're feeding more people more cheaply, how terrible could that be?" That's been the motivation, it's been the justification: it's been the business plan of American agriculture.
Well, the things I constantly hear are: Too many chemicals, pesticides, hormones, monoculture, we don't want giant fields of the same thing, that's wrong.
Later on we learn that, probably due to different sorts of
pesticides
used in the past, their bite became poisonous.
During the party, frogs, snakes, insects, turtles and other creatures of the swamp decide to take revenge on the family for their extensive use of
pesticides.
It's 4th of July and Milland is having relatives(..mostly grandchildren and great-grandchildren)over for a birthday celebration which will be rudely interrupted by reptiles and other animal life disturbed by the poisons and
pesticides
he had used to kill off mosquitoes and vermin that were annoying/bothering them.
But it was the publication in 1962 of the book Silent Spring – a polemic against the use of
pesticides
in agriculture – by the biologist Rachel Carson that jump-started the modern ecological movement.
However, new pests have emerged in Bt cotton, leading to higher use of
pesticides.
The cost of
pesticides
for farmers has increased 13-fold in the same period.
In contrast to the US, information on GMOs in Europe emphasizes risk rather than benefits (in particular, reduced use of
pesticides
and insecticides).
Water, fertilizer, and
pesticides
should be used more efficiently.
Just as invasive species adapt to pesticides, most cancer cells adapt to therapies.
So, just as judicious use of
pesticides
can control invasive species, a therapeutic strategy designed to maintain a stable, tolerable tumor volume could improve a patient’s prospects for survival by allowing sensitive cells to suppress the growth of resistant ones.
Commercial agriculture uses petroleum, oil, and gas to operate machinery, transport goods, and produce agro-chemicals needed for fertilizers and
pesticides.
Children in Central America harvest crops sprayed with
pesticides.
The waste from the animals, together with the fertilizers and
pesticides
used to produce feed, generate large quantities of nitrogen oxides.
With expanded meat consumption, soybean production alone would nearly double, implying a proportional increase in the use of inputs like land, fertilizer, pesticides, and water.
Moreover, the extensive use of fertilizers and
pesticides
– 99% of the world’s soy is genetically modified, and is routinely treated with
pesticides
– is also contaminating ground-water sources, destroying biodiversity, and eroding the soil.
According to the ILO, dangerous machinery, long working hours, and exposure to toxic
pesticides
makes farm work one of the world’s deadliest jobs; more than 170,000 agricultural workers are killed every year on unsafe farms, twice the mortality rate of any other industry.
While companies like Monsanto argue that
pesticides
are necessary to ensure food security, the consequences of chemical exposure to workers like Tomasi – whose body was left twisted and mangled after years of handling chemicals without protection – reveal the human cost of their use.
In addition, crop diversification has reduced the need for costly and environmentally damaging
pesticides.
Just Say No to Agricultural Gene DrivesLAGOS – First, the agribusiness giants came to take our land and disrupt our food systems with synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, proprietary seeds, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Similarly, eradication of malaria in Spain, Italy, and Greece in the late 1940s (using household spraying of
pesticides
among other factors) helped bring a boom in tourism and foreign investment to these countries in the 1950s and 1960s.
A 1991 study by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Governmental Policy, entitled Ground for Choices, demonstrated that the EU’s food supply could be met with 50% less cultivated land, 80% less pesticides, and at 50% less cost.
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