Because of its appeal to a variety of insects, conventional cotton gets treated with pesticides more than any other crop except coffee.The pesticides used, cyanide, dicofol, naled, propargite and trifluralin, are all known to cause cancer, and have been classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as
the most dangerous pesticides.
Pixie @ Cheerfully Vegan recently posted... The 12
Most Dangerous Pesticide - Ridden Foods from BorntoGrow.net and Paul Dysinger
Not exact matches
app identifies chemicals found on foods commonly sold in the grocery store and alerts consumers to which
pesticides are the
most dangerous.
With cotton being one of the
most heavily sprayed fields with
dangerous pesticides, going organic is not only a better choice for your baby, but for the planet too.
Pesticide residue on vegetables and fruits are one of the
most common ways we consume these
dangerous chemicals.
The
most amazing thing is that my super-sensitive dog is totally unaffected by the smell of the oils, so it's really easy to apply without a big battle, and I feel so much better knowing I am using natural oils rather than
dangerous pesticides on my Boo Boo.
«All
pesticides are potentially
dangerous, and the
most dangerous are the organophosphate insecticides,» he says.
Most pet owners already know that exposure to things like chocolate, bleach, and
pesticide can be
dangerous for our animal companions.
The
most dangerous forms of
pesticides include: slug and snail bait (containing metaldehyde, with iron phosphate products also a concern), fly bait (containing methomyl), systemic insecticides (containing disyston or disulfoton), mole or gopher bait (containing zinc phosphide), and
most forms of rat poisons.
While kids and parents across much of the U.S. are deciding how they can get the
most out of summer vacation, there's a boatload of parents in Paramus, New Jersey who are having their children's blood tested for exposure to
dangerous pesticides at West
Pesticides have been found in half the foods eaten by Europeans, with six of the
most dangerous consistently in the top ten measured.