If pesticides cause cancer, why are they still being sold?
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They are still being sold because they afford more benefit than harm. Just because pesticides cause cancer, it doesn't mean that you have to expose yourself to large-enough doses to create a problem. Pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers are essential to creating enough food to feed the planet; as with so many things, it's a question of HOW you use it that makes the difference between a servant and a killer.
Pesticides like many other chemicals. It is with prolonged exposure around a heavy concentrate. The basic uses of pesticides under proper use does not. The people who work with these chemicals with 40 hr weeks as their jobs; they are at risk.
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