"DENMARK CONSIDERS BANNING ALL PESTICIDES"¹

In Denmark the government has set up "a committee of scientists’ and farmers’ groups to decide whether the country should become entirely organic by June1998." Already, 150 pesticide products became illegal last July. "Niels Juul Jensen, deputy director of the Danish Environment Agency, says levels of pesticides are rising in the groundwater that supplies nearly all of Denmark’s drinking water."

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. . . [in Denmark] 150 pesticide products became illegal last July. . . . Meanwhile, in the United States we continue to use vast amounts of pesticides, which contaminate our air, water, soils, and food.

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Meanwhile, in the United States we continue to use vast amounts of pesticides, which contaminate our air, water, soils, and food. In experimenting with rats, Professor Warren Porter of the University of Wisconsin, Madison has found that tiny doses of combinations of pesticides, at levels that can be found in Wisconsin drinking water today, can cause both aggression and learning problems in the animals. He states, "Can you imagine any parents exposing their children to a toxic chemical? And yet they do it all the time [by pesticiding their homes and gardens, eating pesticided food, and permitting pesticiding in their children’s schools and on their playgrounds]. The telling comparison is that we protect laboratory rats better from this stuff than we do our kids."2 He said:

We will not be able to maintain a highly-ordered technological society if we raise a generation of children who are learning disabled and hyperaggressive.3