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if you learn about those chemicals and cotninue to use them. First of all do not believe the manufacturers claims of safety. Instead, make a list of the chemicals you are applying and do your own research. You can start by locating the MSDS sheets for the products you use on the web.
Go to the web site for Environmental Health Perspectives, a journal published by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, part of NIH. Put the chemical name into the search.
Search these sites:
www.healthandenvironment.org
http://exotoxnet.orst.edu
www.silentspring.org

be sure to get the latest research on Roundup too.

When you use these products you are putting them into the air for everyone in the neighborhood to breathe - children, pregnant women, the elderly and sick people as well as healthy people. Learn which chemicals can affect the developing fetus because you may be making a decision that will affect someone's entire life.
The run-off will likely extend to places where people and animals walk.
When you, and others, track the chemicals into your house they exist for a long time on your floors - especially carpets because they require sunshine and water to break down.
Babies are exposed to greater quantities because they always put things in their mouth and they spend time on the floor. Their weight abnd exposure ratio is greater. Also - for some chemicals they do not have matured systems capable of dealing with those chemicals.
Here are just some of the health conditions associated with pesticides and herbicides:
Aplastic anemia, arrythmias, asthma, cancers: bone/ewing sarcoma, brain, kidney, pancreatic, testicular
cognitive impairment
leukemia
miscarriage
multiple myloma
parkinson's disease
reduced fertility

Even low levels can harm people and a developing fetus may have development blocked that results in permanent damage. When they are older they are often called learning disabled.