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Children's immune, nervous and reproductive systems are still developing meaning they are more vulnerable to the effects of pesticides than adults.
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The problems of disease and the use of pesticides?
They are unrelated.
What problems are humans causing to the soil?
deforestation, mining and pesticides
Why is the use of bio pesticides encouraged over chemical pesticides?
chemical pesticides are very harmful for our health and caused many diseases like skin cancer etc. it also helps better plant growth
What are some health effects of using pesticides?
it can cause problems to your nervous system
What diseases are caused by pesticides?
---- Diseases caused by pesticides include many skin diseases because farmers are physically exposed to the pesticides as they are spraying it or mixing it - dermatitus. Dermititus causes the body to have some allergic reactions; itchiness, soreness, swelling, etc. Another one is if you consume some food with pesticides than you may find you are sweating or your major body organs are not working at their normal pace either faster of slower. ---- To find out more about diseases caused by pesticides check out: 1) http://www.prn2.usm.my/mainsite/bulletin/sun/1997/sun6.html 2)http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/496361 ---- Also, according to one health expert, polio, is also caused by pesticides. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/56729 ----
What problems can be caused by non-biodegradable pesticides?
Non biodegradable pesticides don't rot, so they stay in the soil forever (well not forever, but a long time) This wouldn't be a problem if you were a traditional farm, but organic farm ban the use of pesticides. This means that they would not be able to use this land to grow their healthier crops. This also means that the animals of any farmer - traditional or organic - may be able to contract diseases due to eating the harmful chemicals in pesticides in their feed - potentially grass, or other herbivorous food items...
Why is pesticides good?
Pesticides can cause some problems if people consume too many of them, but they can also be a good thing. The use of pesticides has made a lot more food available for people by getting rid of many of the insects that used to destroy the crops.
Which pollution is caused by paint industry?
Heavy metals, xylene, other BTEX, Pesticides, Chlorinated Hydrocarbons
What is the book scilent spring about?
The book Silent Spring warned about the dangers of chemical pesticides. The idea was that the pesticides would wipe out all the birds and no one would hear the birds chirp in the spring. It caused some pesticides to be outlawed. Species of birds that had been wiped out by pesticides were reintroduced to the rest of the Untied States from Florida, Alaska, and Texas.
The Chinese caused all sorts of problems on the goldfields. Why?
The Chinese caused all sorts of problems on the goldfields. Why?
What are the problems caused due to wars?
Some problems caused by war is loss of life and economic crash.
What methods could be applied to reduce intake of pesticides?
Pesticides and chemicals have become a big threat for our health and if we donot take corrective action now we will be in big problems especially health wise. What can we do to reduce intake of pesticides - well many actions can be taken like: 1- Take only organically grown food. 2- Reduce use of chemicals. 3- Make people aware about problems due to pesticides intake especially the farmers and ask them not to use chemicals and pesticides for farming. 4- People think productivity goes down if we do not use chemical fertilisers and pesticides but it is not so organic inputs can give better results and we need to educated our farmers about this.
