1 Million Accidental Human Pesticide Poisonings Each Year

Technology rages.  It never stops, and this form of 'innovation' is stampeding unchecked and unexamined. THE CONSEQUENCE OF WHICH IS CHEMICAL POISONING ON A GLOBAL SCALE AND A MOVEMENT TOWARD THE ELIMINATION OF NORMAL REPRODUCTIVITY AND LIFE ON EARTH.  It is a matter that needs addressing now, because otherwise, and without profound change, we are sentient and yet blind 'caretakers' stampeding an entire planet toward a morbid technologically-induced devastation, brutally failing an enlightened intellectual concern for readily available scientific research and its exposition of CHEMICAL CAUSE & EFFECT!

"Each year an estimated 2.5 million tons of pesticides are applied to agricultural crops worldwide.  The amount of pesticide coming in direct contact with or consumed by target pests is an extremely small percentage of the amount applied.  In most studies the proportion of pesticides applied reaching the target pest has been found to be less than 0.3%, so 99.7% went 'somewhere else' in the environment (Pimentel, 1995)" (van der Werf, 1996:81).  The pesticides ended up wherever we are!  Note: "During the 1970s and 1980s, increasing numbers of pesticides were found in groundwater (US Environmental Protection Agency, 1977; Cohen et al., 1984; Leistra & Boesten, 1989; Schiavon et al., 1995), causing great concern, as groundwater is a major source for drinking water in many countries.

Worries about the movement of pesticides in the atmosphere have arisen during the 1970s and 1980s.  Transport and redeposition of pesticides may occur over very long distances, as evidenced by the presence of pesticides in ocean fog (Schomburg & Glotfelty, 1991) and arctic snow (Gregor & Gummer, 1989)...  Human pesticide poisonings and illnesses are the highest price paid when pesticides reach non-target areas.  It is estimated that there are about 1 million accidental human pesticide poisonings each year in the world, with about 20000 reported deaths (WHO-UNEP, 1989)...  Recent evidence indicates that pesticides may damage the immune system (Culliney et al., 1992), and can mimic hormones and may thus disrupt the endocrine system in both humans and animals, causing a variety of disorders (LeBlanc, 1995).  Human health issues such as increased incidence of breast cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer, endometriosis, birth defects in the male reproductive tract, and reductions in sperm count have been associated with the presence of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment (Hileman, 1994; Davis & Bradlow, 1995; Kelce et al., 1995)" (van der Werf, 1996:83-86).  Dr. Judy Ford says chemicals are a huge issue in terms of the increasing problem of infertility (Ford, 2008).

See: http://poisonedpeople.com & http://poisoningandlegalaction.com.au for details. All the information on these sites is FREE to view or download.  For a full listing of any references (e.g. "(Dingle, 2005)") given above, please see my online Essay located at: http://poisoningandlegalaction.com.au/essays/essay1-worldwide-disease-pandemics.pdf.


The following site might be useful in terms of securing nutritional products to bring about repair and balance in a body affected by chemical poisoning:

http://organic.shoestringmall.com

Murray Thompson

(BAppSci Environmental Health 1998; Hons I Social Ecology 1999; Current Sociology PhD student, University of Western Sydney)