"Organic" Farming and the True Cost of Food-A Small Farmers Perspective

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112. pesticides is dangerous and we have to be cautious

Organics are better way to do farming. I don't think we should wait for a study to link organics to avoiding cancer. I think you are arguing for the sake of arguing.


"The National Academy of Sciences issued, in 1987, a report on pesticides in the food supply. On the basis of data in the study, the potential risks posed by cancer-causing pesticides in our food are over one million additional cancer cases in the United States population over the next 70 years.6."
"In the summer of 1985, nearly 1,000 people in several Western states and Canada were poisoned by residues of the pesticide Temik in watermelons. Within two to twelve hours after eating the contaminated watermelons, people experienced nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, muscle weakness and other symptoms. Fortunately, no one died, though some of the victims were gravely ill. Reports included grand mal seizures, cardiac irregularities, a number of hospitalizations, and at least two stillbirths following maternal illness."
"A February 1987 EPA report, entitled Unfinished Business, ranked pesticides in food as one of the nation's most serious health and environmental problems."
http://eap.mcgill.ca/MagRack/JPR/JPR_03.htm