Caroline tells you all kinds of things you don’t want to hear about pesticides, including herbicides like Glypohsate and Paraquat. How widely are synthetic chemicals used on crops? How much of them is on our food? Is there a difference between conventional and organic? And, ultimately, does the scientific data convince Caroline to change her mind?
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Sources:
Reviews on Environmental Health: Pesticide Use & Exposure, Extensive Worldwide
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
The Cato Institute: “Bring Back DDT”
PennState: “A Short History of Pets Management”
AG Daily: “Behind the Data, Trends in Pesticide Use in the US”
FAO: Pesticides Use, Pesticides Trade, and Pesticides Indicators
Forbes: “The Truth About Pesticide Residues on Foods”
Genetic Literacy Project: “Pesticides and Food”
New York Times: “This Pesticide is Prohibited in Britain”
New York Times: “RoundUp Weedkiller is Blamed for Cancers”
New York Times: “RoundUp Maker to Pay $10 Billion”
NBC: “A Potentially Cancer-Causing Chemical is Spray on Much of America’s Farmland”
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