What if there were no pesticides?

Answer 1

Life would certainly be very different. Without DDT in previous wars, we would have possibly seen very different outcomes. Far fewer humans would be alive today because malaria and other very nasty plagues would be rampant.

Food would be far less attractive. Your apples would have worms, your tomatoes would be very small and all food would be far more expensive.

The invention of pesticides was one of the turning points for all mankind. Without these chemicals, man would be far less abundant and far less healthy.

Answer 2

Pesticides are very harmful chemicals that kill animals! If they kill insects they ain't good for you either sista.

STOP PESTICIDES!!!

AnswerFarmers can stop using pesticides on their crops anytime the US public is willing to start paying for it. When the average American homemaker is willing and able to pay from three to ten times as much for their food, and they let farmers know of that desire, most farmers will be only too happy to oblige. Farmers on the whole are a very market-conscious group and will deliver what the market demands.

Answer 3

Their crops would become less and less productive year after year until eventually the soil simply would not be able to produce anything. This is precisely what happened in early colonial American agriculture, particularly in the South, and took farmers decades to correct.

Answer 4

There would be considerably more loss, more costs to the consumer & more contamination to deal with in whatever is harvested.

Answer 5

Their yield would be reduced, and food costs would increase.