What do pesticides do to your body?!


Question: What do pesticides do to your body?
Can they make you fat? Do they take away from the nutrients of your fruits and veggies?

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Laboratory studies show that pesticides can cause health problems, such as birth defects, nerve damage, cancer, and other effects that might occur over a long period of time. However, these effects depend on how toxic the pesticide is and how much of it is consumed. Some pesticides also pose unique health risks to children.



I saw a documentry once where a researcher drank a glass of DDT to prove it's not harmless.



Depends on the pesticide.



They'll stop you from getting greenfly.

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...they mutate your dna.



Well, kill us?




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