What are pesticides?
Pesticides are highly toxic substances that humans use to kill unwanted plants or animals. These so-called pests typically threaten to damage or destroy agricultural crop or livestock but can also be found at home – garden weeds are a familiar example.
The pesticides are categorised by the type of pest they are designed to kill: insecticides target insects, herbicides target plants, fungicides target fungi, and rodenticides target rodents.
Yet, these poisons can be life-threatening and pollute our own health, both through direct exposure and pesticide-related illness and indirectly through environmental damage.
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