what is the hazards associated with the use of pesticide?

Answer 1

With most,some form of health or enviornmental risk.
The use and overuse, of pesticides has also taken away the inexpensive simple pleasures like mushrooming, collecting blackberries etc.All you see is HAZCHEM signs on the paddock fences.So it means less of the things "that were" are still available for our children to experience and enjoy.The list of things that were around to enjoy when we were kids, is getting shorter every year.
I am not even a "Greenie" and I can see the reality.
Here in Australia its really pitiful.

Answer 2

There are MANY hazards associated with the use of pesticides (although some pesticides are more hazardous to different organisms than others). Pesticides are poisons, and aren't just poisonous to their target organisms...

First hazards are hazards to human health. Pesticide classes such as organophosphorus pesticides are incredibly toxic to humans, especially children. This is lame because an applicator treats a house, the house doesn't get aired out properly, a kid goes & plays and gets pesticide on their hands, sticks their hands in their mouth and voila! Pesticide poisoning. Unfortunately, most of the time, the parent's have NO idea what happened to the kid and nerve damage is caused. People who apply the pesticides can also be harmed. Unfortunately the US EPA seems to protect the manufacturers of pesticides more than they protect us, the users.

Second, pesticides harm the organisms in the environment. They wipe out bugs in the water which means fish in the water starve. They wipe out predator insects that would take care of the pest problem in the first place. Some herbicides kill algae, not just the target weeds, and then bugs can't feed on the algae, so they starve, and then there are no bugs, so the fish starve.

Anywho, pesticides are SO over-applied, especially by untrained users like us, that we really don't know all the effects that they are causing. I could go into the more specific human health aspect, but I figure we are digging our own graves...

Answer 3

its supposidly contimanates wateer, i know there saying chicken shiit is the reaosn for the chesepeake bay being fuucked up. Personally i couldnt care less about the envrioment