Children exposed in the womb to high levels of neurotoxic pesticides have somewhat lower IQ levels than children with virtually no exposure. Multiple studies have been done by screening women by blood and urine samples for harmful toxins. Some harmful pesticides found in bug killers were phased out by the year 2000 but are still legal for spraying on farm fields. Pesticide exposures have been found stemmed across over 300 low income Mexican-American families in California, as well as some crowded populations of New York Ci
ty. The exposure most likely is traced through bug spraying of homes and eating overly treated produce. Among the California families the average IQ of the children with the most exposure was 7 points lower compared the the children with the least exposure. This is a very important topic of argument for myself personally. I find it that there should be a law aganist feeding human beings tainted produce with harmful disrupting chemicals that almost everyone is unaware of. These unknown chemicals are slowly polluting our bodies from the inside and even newborn babies come into this world with some sort of pesticide in their body. Something needs to be done to solve this unfair and unsafe problem.
ty. The exposure most likely is traced through bug spraying of homes and eating overly treated produce. Among the California families the average IQ of the children with the most exposure was 7 points lower compared the the children with the least exposure. This is a very important topic of argument for myself personally. I find it that there should be a law aganist feeding human beings tainted produce with harmful disrupting chemicals that almost everyone is unaware of. These unknown chemicals are slowly polluting our bodies from the inside and even newborn babies come into this world with some sort of pesticide in their body. Something needs to be done to solve this unfair and unsafe problem.
This is really sad. The child has no control over this. The parents who do not have a lot of money are just worried about having the money to feed their children and themselves, not what chemicals are in the food that they are buying. Organic foods are more expensive than non-organic foods, which make it less available to poorer families. The children's IQ has a big effect on their future and to get them out of poverty so something needs to be done to help them out.
ReplyDeleteThis is so bad! First of all, the baby has no control over this, and I think that's what makes it so bad. It might be harmful to the mother carrying the child, but it is essentially more dangerous to the unborn child that the woman is carrying. I think that everyone, adults, and especially children should try to eat as little, if no pesticides at all. Pesticides have been proven to have so many negative and harmful effects on our bodies, and they have no positive effects. But right now, I still think that humans and the workers who spray the pesticides on foods, really still have no choice but to consume these foods. All of us have to ban together, and try to make the use of pesticides extinct.
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