Pesticides

 This article is about how the pesticides we use in everyday life are harmful to our bodies and how it affects our environment. Pesticides can be found everywhere from homes to agricultural fields, it's in the "air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink." It is a very modern practice, yet its use comes with some harmful health problems. This article provides details on some of the less harmful effects such as nausea, systemic poisoning, even endocrine disruption. Pesticides have even been linked to about nine different types of cancers. This article also provides evidence and studies to back up their claims. It also reveals on how we affect our kids with these products; for example,       "endocrine disruption can produce infertility and a variety of birth defects in offspring, including hormonal imbalance and incomplete sexual development." One of the last things pesticides affects is our environment. (150) Pesticides are harmful to the living organisms and cause damage to farming land. It can kill beneficial species in the soil and weaken a plant's roots and immune system. Scientists find new threats to the environment everyday. There is also a section dedicated to the myth of safety. That section basically tells us that the government and other agencies lie to us, saying that pesticides are safe, but in reality they aren't.(72) The best part about this article is that is provides solutions to pesticides and how we can prevent these harmful diseases caused by pesticides. This is a very credible source and I hope you can use it.                    http://www.toxicsaction.org/problems-and-solutions/pesticides