Thread: How many people a year die or get sick from pesticides every year? - Yahoo! Answers

Probably way more than the statistics will show. Back when Willy Nelson was promoting Farm-Aid to help raise money for farmers who were committing suicide because they risked losing their farms, I learned something interesting that was not revealed by the mass media. The farmers in Missouri where I lived were killing themselves because they had cancer and no health insurance, they wanted their sons to inherit the farm and if they stayed in the...

Each year, around 2.5 million tons (2,500,000 tons = 5 billion pounds) of pesticide are dumped on the planet's crops. In 2002, an estimated 69,000 children were poisoned by pesticides in the US The World Health Organization reports 220,000 people die every year worldwide because of pesticide poisoning. Hard to believe, isn't it? In 2001, the world pesticide market was valued at $32 billion ($32,000,000,000). Big bucks!...

pesticides is a very over blown subject. the "organic" people are going way overboard in the opposite direction of no chemicals. the chemicals that the farmers use on the crops they grow is very safe according to the food and drug administration (FDA). don't let these people that think with their heart instead of their brains influence you. their might be one in 10,00 that die from a reaction of a chemical each year....

How many people a year die or get sick from pesticides every year?

I would imagine that unless you wash fresh fruit and vegetables properly, along with depending on where you purchased you products (from a local farmer, etc) and the pesticides that they use whilst cultivating their crops - I do not know but obviously if you eat home grown produce then you yourself will know what you have used whilst your produce grows. I would not however imagine it to be a high number or else alarm bells would be ringing all...

Far fewer than the number of people who get sick or die from bug-borne diseases every year.