Pick Your Poison Amanda Stewart Global Geography 12 Mrs. Aliphat Due: January 24/06

An Introduction to Pesticides –Pesticides are a very serious, harmful substance that is used throughout the world. We can’t avoid it, in fact every person on earth has absorbed at least 250 synthetic chemicals into their body. –There are many chemicals that we are unaware of such as pesticides in our powered milk, gardens,certain types of solid foods, its even in the air that we breathe.

Economic Development of Pesticides –Industries as well as big corporations fear that if pesticides were banned, that they would loose billions of dollars in food production. –Once the word got out that pesticides could possibly be banned for good, the devious local companies quickly picked up the slack, producing look-alike copies of well known chemicals to con poorer families.

How Pesticides Affect The World Economically –Businesses and largely owned corporations state that without chemicals, fertilizers or pesticides people around the world would starve. –They are obviously missing the big picture. If these so called business people would lower the cost of living then the poorer people wouldn’t have to expose deadly chemicals to their children for breakfast, lunch and or dinner.

Pesticides Vs.The Environment –There are thousands of harmful, but yet powerful pesticides/chemicals that are used for a variety of things. –Pesticide parathion is used in Taucamarca to kill rats and stray dogs for example. –The spray from fumigant metam sodium was used in California to kill nematodes, fungi and weed seeds.

Pesticides Vs.The Environment *Continued* –When these dangerous chemicals are sprayed, they are not only ruining our environment, but they harm our wild life when they come in contact with these chemicals. They cause them to either die, or become very ill.

Pesticides In Our Environment –It has shown that farmers, big corporations, and industries might be in a great deal of trouble because lately the pests gradually become resistant to the certain types of pesticides, which means that they have to come up with a stronger, more deadlier chemical to try and get rid of them.

Pesticides In Our Environment *Continued* That sadly means that our environment is in serious danger once again. When will they come up with a safer method to destroy unwanted rodents? If they don’t want to do it for us, then they should consider all the animals, and vegetation they are destroying with each spray of their chemical.

The Effect Pesticides have on People There is tons of harmful pesticides and chemicals that farmers used to get rid of unwanted bugs and weeds. Parathion is a type of pesticide that causes people to vomit and have convulsions. It is a known fact that just three drops of this chemical substance is enough to kill a grown man.

The Effect Pesticides have on People *Continued* Dealing with chemicals is a very risky job, there is no room for mistakes. In fact a farmer from Taucomarca accidentally mixed milk powder in with Parathion ( which is a dangerous pesticide) and the result took the lives of 24 children.

The Sustainability of Pick Your Poison I believe that this article on Pesticides has no Sustainability development at all. This type of article is based mainly on the farmers, companies and industries and what's best for them, not what's best for the people that lives in the poorer villages. In order to have Sustainability you have to go from person to person to get their input on the decision that you are making.

The Sustainability of Pick Your Poison The decision you are making is not only going to affect you, but its going to affect your surroundings as well. But in my article they only thought what was best for them and that was making a lot of money, even if it risked the health of the poorer people who lived in the villages.

The Sustainability of Pick Your Poison So therefore I believe that there was no Sustainability development there at all. They didn’t work together, and they never got each others input even though the villagers had a right to know what was going on. They only thought about themselves which was very selfish. If you want to get anything accomplished you have to work together. It makes for a better result In the end.

Did You Know?!?!?!?! Did you know that the Arctic have some of the highest recorded levels of chemical contamination in the world, even though they are thousands of kilometers away from where the chemicals are used?!?!?!

Did You Know?!?!?! Did you know that Earlimart, a small town in the San Joaquin valley has one of the highest use of Pesticides and deadly chemicals?!?!?!

Did You Know?!???!? Did you know that women all over the world now produce breast milk containing traces of insecticide DDT. And breast milk still remains the safest option for babies?!??!?

Did You Know??!!??!!?? Did you know that the first generation of organophosphate poisons was tested on prisoners in the Nazi Concentration Camp in Auschwitz??!!??

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