How Do Pesticides Affect Our Lives?

- Pesticides are known to cause illness among the farmers
- Studies show that exposure to pesticides increase sex linked cancers
- Pesticides affect nursing mothers and babies
- Children and their mental development
- Pesticide Poisonings
- Water’s role in transporting pesticides

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"Baby Suffers Due To Mother Being Exposed to Pesticides." Pesticides: useful and harmful
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Berg, Linda, and Peter Raven. Environment. United States of America: John Wiley &

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"Pesticides in Water.” Californians For Pesticide Reform. May 3, 2010.

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