Pesticide exposure has long been a cause for concern, and with good
reason. Studies have shown that all persons, but especially
children, pregnant women, farmers, farmworkers, and the elderly,
may experience negative health effects from pesticide exposure.
These effects may include acute poisoning, cancer, neurological
damage, birth defects, reduced sperm count, suppressed immune
systems, and reproductive and developmental harm. This book is a
comprehensive examination of pesticide use, pesticide harm, and
alternatives to harmful pesticides. Levine highlights the role of
farming, because a substantial majority—70 percent or more
annually—of pesticides are applied in agricultural uses, thereby
making their way into the food chain and into the water supply.
More than 20 types of pesticides have been detected in U.S.
groundwater, and it is believed that nearly 100 have the potential
to invade our municipal water systems. Some level of pesticide
contamination has been detected in every state, in both urban and
agricultural areas. Outside of agriculture, people are exposed to
pesticides primarily in the home. Approximately 90 percent of all
households in the nation use pesticides, and the number and
concentration of these agents indoors has been shown to be greater
than outdoors. Given that Americans now spend nearly 90 percent of
each day indoors, this is an issue of real concern. In addition to
homes, suburban and rural corporate parks are also affected.
Schools are another worrisome venue. In too many of our 110,000
school districts, untrained persons are making critical decisions
about the use of pesticides in school buildings and on school
grounds. No other book currently examines this issue in such
breadth and depth.
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