Pesticides Effects on Humans
Pesticides are chemicals that make our produce perfect, and our yards free of pests. However, this perfection comes at a price to many different people.Pesticides are poisons with the sole purpose of killing. They are intended to kill weeds, insects and fungus. There are three types of pesticides called herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides. Every pesticide has an active ingredient, and an inert ingredient. The active ingredient is the poison that kills he pest, and the inert ingredient is the carrying, or spreading compound. (Honey pg. 2) Pesticides were once thought of as a miracle cure for hunger. They were supposed to keep crops free of pests, and misquitos under control. People were not aware of the dangers that these poisons possessed. DDT* was supposed to be a, "benefactor for all humanity"(Honey pg. 2). There were few regulations on the use of DDT use. It was even sprayed where children played. It was intended to kill misquitos, but it ended up poisoning, even killing people. (Honey pg.2) Elizabeth Rollings says that one of her teachers, Mrs. Keller, had a sister that died from DDT poisoning when Mrs. Keller was a child. People came to her house that sprayed the bush
One third of the poison banned in the U. All this changes a body's homeostasis*, and when homeostasis can not be maintained or restored, disease occurs. has seen the dangers that pesticides possess and banned many kinds from use in this country. 1) There are three main problems with this: the regulations are very low in the places the U. The field workers in a sugar plantation were not told of the dangers of the pesticides that they applied, and they were not given any protective clothing. A specific example of how unaware the people are is an incident in Costa Rica. If something is carcinogenic then that means it causes cancer. *GTI is short for Guelph Turfgrass Institute. IT might shock you to know that 79, of the 136 proven carcinogenic* pesticides are used on you to this day! (Honey page 1)*Homeostasis is the maintaining of the body's life functions. Many of them went shirtless, and in tennis shoes with no socks. women with breast cancer, than in those women who do not have breast cancer.
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