Pesticides

More 400 chemicals are regularly used in conventional farming as pesticides and insecticides. The USA National Academy of Sciences reports that standard chemicals are up to 10 times more toxic to children than to adults, depending on body weight. This is due to the fact that children take in more toxic chemicals, relative to body weight than adults and have developing organ systems that are more vulnerable and less able to detoxify such chemicals. Blood samples of children aged 2 to 4 showed pesticide residue concentrations six times higher in children eating conventionally farmed fruits and vegetables, compared with those eating organic food.