Sentences with phrase «large amounts of pesticides»

Some of the products currently sold in stores are made from seeds that were sprayed with large amounts of pesticides.

On top of that, the sugar is not - organic, and likely comes from sugar beets, resulting in a highly refined sugar that often contains large amounts of pesticides!

As a result, farmers apply large amounts of pesticides, which can increase the chemical concentrations in food or run off and damage other parts of the environment, all of which have costs.

Ingesting large amounts of pesticides, even those safe at smaller doses, could be harmful to your pet.

Meat and dairy production requires the use of large amounts of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, fuel, feed and water.

I've been slowly trying to transition our family to organic fabrics in our clothing and bedding as much as possible after finding out that cotton is one of the dirtiest crops, sprayed with large amounts of pesticides and herbicides during its cultivation and residue of these chemicals remain in finished textile products.

The EWG also lists some serious issues that could be brought about by consuming large amounts of pesticides;

The Environmental Working Group puts out an annual guide on the 12 types of produce with the largest amount of pesticide residues — The Dirty Dozen, and the 15 types that have few, if any, pesticide residues — The Clean Fifteen.

This mutation means that soybeans can be (and are) sprayed with large amounts of pesticides and herbicides during their cultivation.

Even though eating small amounts of grass is usually harmless, I recommend discouraging it as much as possible, especially here in Florida due to the large amount of pesticides used on our grass.

Cotton is an extremely water intensive crop and is quite often treated with large amounts of pesticides and chemicals, and often bleached to make them nice and white.