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What are the dangers of using chemical pesticides or herbicides?
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∙ 10y ago
That they affect environmental quality, food webs, population sustainability, and non-target audiences are harmful effects of insecticides. Insecticides can remain in the environment long enough to impact people's health and wildlife's well-being as well as diminish or eliminate predator-prey interactions and pollute such vital Natural Resources as air and water.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 11y ago- Decreases soil fertility.
- environmental pollution
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∙ 10y agoChemical pesticides posses toxity problems for human beings as well as pollution problems. moreover the pests can also become resistant to the used pesticides.
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∙ 14y agoThis depends on the pesticides that are being applied. Some possible 'bad' effects include carcinogenic effects, pollution, and harm to organisms other than the target.
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∙ 12y agoExcessive use of anything can be harmful. In this case, pesticides, which essentially are poisons, can easily cause harm to any living thing, not just what it is intended to kill.
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∙ 13y agoThey kill things.
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It gets in the bodies of farm animals (APEX)
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3 Are there health risks associated with using chemical pesticides?
Read the label and then you tell me.
What are 3 examples of potential dangers when using electricity?
Electrocution, fire and chemical reaction
What type of engineer develops products like fertilizers pesticides cosmetics and synthetic materials like plastics and nylon?
The products you have mentioned were developed using chemical engineering.
Is microwave ruined when using previous Pyrex garden chemicals were used?
If you were using garden chemicals in the microwave, it is probably ruined as the microwave contains many plastics that can retain and absorb chemicals. Don't trust your food with any herbicides or pesticides. On the other hand if the chemicals were only used in a Pyrex dish that has been in the microwave, there may be no problem at all. Pyrex like other glass objects does not retain or absorb chemicals and is easily washed (this is part of the reason it is used for chemical laboratory glassware).
How do herbicides work?
Depends on what you want to use them for. I have used lavender and or tea tea to wash my hands after gardening for years. When you work in the dirt and around plants your skin sustains lots of small superficial scratches and gouges, since I started using the lavender wash I have not had a single problem with the scratches swelling and/or turning red.
What is the difference between organic apples and un-organic apples?
Organic apples aren't sprayed with pesticides/ herbicides, grown using chemical fertilizers in the soil, and are non-GMO (non genetically modified)
What is the negative consequence of using pesticides and herbicides?
It doesn't taste nearly as good, even after you wash it, and it's not as healthy for you or the environment.
What reason might a farmer have for using biological control instead of chemical pesticides?
what reason might a farmer have for using bioligical control instead of chemical pesticides
How would the soil biota be affected by using traditional chemical pesticides and would this differ from using transgenic methods?
Traditional chemical pesticides contain harsh chemicals that contaminate crops. Transgenic methods are much cleaner.
Why is organic food better for us?
Because it has no pesticides, and is not grown using chemical fertilizers.
3 Are there health risks associated with using chemical pesticides?
Read the label and then you tell me.
What are the pros and cons of fertilizers?
Pros: Greater crop yields per metre squared. If using pesticides/herbicides removal of competition/consumers. Cons: Eutrophication, general environmental pollution.
What are pros and cons of fertilizer?
Pros: Greater crop yields per metre squared. If using pesticides/herbicides removal of competition/consumers. Cons: Eutrophication, general environmental pollution.
What are 3 examples of potential dangers when using electricity?
Electrocution, fire and chemical reaction
What was the important lesson from Rachel Carsons book?
She highlighted the dangers of using certain pesticides, resulting in governmental bans and widespread environmentalism as we know it today.
Is food organic at Ecuador?
If the food is grown without using synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides and does not contain GMOs, it is organic. There is a good chance that it least some food grown in Ecuador is grown organically.
What is the effect of using herbicides and pesticides?
Pesticides are designed to kill of as many insects as possible; they´re poison in the truest sense of the word. Other animals may die too if they eat from it, or the insects that have or are about to die of it. And as pesticides are sprayed over our crops, we too may ingest them if we don´t wash our food thouroughly, and even then it might be too much to wash off. Luckily chemical pesticides are being replaced by biological control such as natural enemies to ward off pests.
