Pesticides – with comments from Linda
By Linda on May 12, 2011 in Toxins | comments(0)
Linda’s comments: We need to all step to the plate on the pesticide issue in our country. Other countries have stepped to the plant and banned products that the US continues to carry, thanks to Monsanto…UGHhh
How do we stop this problem…simple, we refuse to purchase these products and when it hits the bottom line we will start winning.
Link: http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2228
Excerpt:
In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics.
by sonia shah
Ever since Olga Owen Huckins shared the spectacle of a yard full of dead, DDT-poisoned birds with her friend Rachel Carson in 1958, scientists have been tracking the dramatic toll on wildlife of a planet awash in pesticides. Today, drips and puffs of pesticides surround us everywhere, contaminating 90 percent of the nation’s major rivers and streams, more than 80 percent of sampled fish, and one-third of the nation’s aquifers. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, fish and birds that unsuspectingly expose themselves to this chemical soup die by the millions every year.
