Why is it they show children playing peacefully on the grass drenched in poisons?
Lawncare companies and pesticide manufacturers are brainwashing you into believing that the poison doesn’t harm children? Quite the contrary, it does harm them. Children are at higher risk than adults. Because of their size, they absorb more toxins by weight. The fruits and vegetables most consumed by children contain detectable residues 1 of multiple pesticides. And yet the standards for pesticides are written with a full-grown 160 pound adult male in mind. And they are not tested as one purchases them. The active ingredients are tested without the inert ingredients, which can be up to 99% of the total volume of the pesticide. Pesticide levels in house dust collected from carpeting can be higher than in the soil 2 of your yard. Perhaps lawn chemicals are one of the reasons that children are having so many behavioral problems 3. And perhaps it is also why children are experiencing increasingly higher rates of cancers 4 as the years pass. Children exposed to pesticides are at increased
