Thursday, May 16, 2013

The Pesticide Problem

Due to new crops presented by Monsanto, including the new soybean and cotton plant and Dow Chemical's new corn and soybean plant could be using harmful pesticides. These need a new herbicide that is much more powerful than a herbicide now on the market. These new herbicides probably will not be on the market until 2015, after being delayed due to the Department of agriculture's concerns over the herbicides.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/business/energy-environment/environmental-review-to-delay-two-engineered-crops.html?ref=earth

2 comments:

  1. There are way to many chemicals put in things now. I wish that it didnt harm our bodies. If it can kill a bug think of what it does to us

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  2. Joel, yes it has been shown in many immigrant workers the effects of pesticides on humans. The huge planes that fly over and spray down pesticides also spray it over the illegal immigrant workers and they are over time poisoned and could die from it or, their children can have birth defects.

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