Today, the majority of food you eat, if not organic, is produced using synthetic pesticides. In order to produce enough food, famers have used these products indiscriminately, as weeds, molds, and other pests target crops and destroy yields! Insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and all other types of synthetic ...
The single most comprehensive and peer-reviewed study to date on neonicotinoid pesticides confirms their harm to both honeybee and wild bee populations around the world. On June 29th, 2017, scientists from the Natural Environment Research Council released their field research spanning 2,000 hectares across Europe and ...
Pesticides have been around for thousands of years, starting with sulfur, which was used to control bacteria and mold, around 1000 BC. Then, arsenic, not known at the time for its severe health impacts to humans, was used as a herbicide in the 1800s. These first-generation pesticides were often highly toxic compounds, ...
