The issue of the pressure related to the reduction of chemical pesticides exerted by regular farming product consumers on both farmers and markets remains unanswered, as a recent UK study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) shows. Given the premises and resources, the usage of biological counter... |
8 October 2008
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You think that dumping endless amounts of pesticides around and taking drugs indiscriminately will affect only the sex of fish, frogs and other species in the wild fauna? You're wrong: even the penis of your boy may be affected. Hormone mimicking chemicals, which can be relatively harmless alone when present in ... |
26 February 2008
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You drink like a pig and smoke like a sailor? In this case, it is hard to imagine what type of kids you will have (if you will have). Sperm mutations due to exposure to environmental toxins can be transmitted along the generations, as showed by a research presented at American Association for the Advancement of Scien... |
20 February 2008
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The chlorine insecticides, like DDT, are known to move through the food chain and to make bald eagle lay paper thin shelled eggs or poison the milk of the Inuit (Eskimo) women. The amounts thrown on the fields may look minute but once these carcinogens enter the food chain in small levels, starting with the microscop... |
13 July 2007
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Filling the shopping cart has turned into an act of faith. But while buying food, you can be misled. Because many times you do not really know what you eat. I'm not referring to the mad cow disease or bird flu, which appear in all news and daily capture our attention, but on the way we are cheated by food produc... |
23 June 2007
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The "green revolution" of the agriculture threw enormous quantities of poison (read "pesticides") on the cultivated fields.Many still persist (especially those with chlorine) and huge amounts are still used to ensure the harvest.A solution to reduce contamination would be the use of the bacteria against insect pests.... |
30 May 2007
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Nemagon is the commercial name of the DBCP (dibromo chloropropane), developed and fabricated by some multinational chemical corporation. DBCP appeared in the labs of the Dow Chemical Company and Shell Chemical Company. It was employed in the banana fiefs belonging to the multinational fruit companies to combat the ne... |
15 May 2007
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The greediness of the farmers has gone up to the point when they would like to see just corn and nothing else on a cornfield. And atrazine is one of the most widely employed allies, possibly the most employed herbicide worldwide and one of the most common contaminants in ground and surface water, a long-lived poison ... |
2 April 2007
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