Pesticides: Double Edged Sword Indeed

As long as there has been farming there has been sets of obsticles for farmers to face and and eventually overcome. One of the biggest obstacles was insects or pests. from the potato to the locust the insects would devour entire crops of food with out stopping for a breath. many believed for a long time that pests were a punishment from god, that how bad it would get. they reproduce fast and eat even faster before the 1930s they were a death sentence for any crop they came across and as the crops fell, the business would soon follow. hgc

finally in the 1930s a chemist in Switzerland created a compound that would drastically change the lives of farmers every were. it was spray that you use on your crops that would kill the pests that were foolish enough to lay there. This saved many crops from complete collaps and was called a wonder tool.

Sadly this victory was short lived, soon after inventing the pesticide a horrible side affect was discovered. I guess no one stopped and thought ( if they did they didn't speak loud enough) "hey wouldn't this contaminate the food were about to ship off to states all around the US." because soon people were falling ill due to the chemicals on the food.