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Worst Pesticides Used on Food in New Zealand

  • Writer: Bonny Faulkner-Hollis-Alexander
    Bonny Faulkner-Hollis-Alexander
  • Mar 8, 2021
  • 1 min read

The rate of some cancers has doubled and even quadrupled in the world over the past 100-150 years, according to researchers from the University of Adelaide Medical School. 90 - 95 % of all cancers are due to what we eat and other lifestyle factors such as stress, smoking, alcohol, lack of exercise, sun exposure and environmental pollution.


Since 1950, the increase of pesticide use is estimated to be 2.5 million tons annually worldwide.

You have to ask the question - if those chemicals kill bugs and weeds - what effect do they have on us?




 
 

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