In fact, herbicide is not only harmful to our natural, but also slowly poisoning children and adults. Children always get sick easily because of their immune system is very weak so they are at the high risk level to get infected. According by a U.S. National Cancer Institute survey found that children with leukemia and asthma are 6 times more likely to come from homes that herbicide were used. Children are most at risk of developing problems because they play on lawns and herbicide can either through their skin. And according by Dr. Kelly Martin, she said 20% of the people who arrived in hospital emergency room with toxic herbicide exposure are children who’ve crawled on a lawn after it’s been sprayed safely. The Ontario College of Family Physicians, the Canadian public Health Association and the Learning Disabilities Association of Canada said ‘herbicide affect children’s neurological development, reproduction, growth, and the functioning of the immune and endocrine systems’. Moreover, Canadians are using approximately four million kilograms of herbicides every year. Even adult has stronger immune system but also affecting by the chemical spray and causes sneezing, running noses, stinging eyes, headache and diarrhea. There is no such good thing about use herbicide, why government still allow people to abuse toxic
2006-11-23
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