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Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog

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In Call for Eliminating Cancer Causing Pesticides, Group Says They Are Not Needed for Land Management

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(Beyond Pesticides, July 14, 2025) With the rise in early onset cancer rates and mortality for breast, pancreatic, and gastric cancers, a wide and growing body of science linking pesticides to cancer, and associations between childhood cancer and pesticides, Beyond Pesticides is urging nationwide efforts to eliminate the use of cancer causing pesticides. Peter Hopewood, MD, FACS, writing in a bul…

As Millions Die from Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Annually, Study Shines Light on Pesticide Connection

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(Beyond Pesticides, July 11, 2025) Pesticides and antibiotics are linked inextricably in the looming crisis of human and ecosystem health. Both started out as quasi-miraculous solutions to age-old human problems, yet it has been clear that the failures of each present severe challenges—and that they are synergistic because they trigger the same kinds of defensive mechanisms in their targets: inse…

Public Rejects Pesticides to Manage “Invasive” Species, Study Finds

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(Beyond Pesticides, July 10, 2025) A study in People and Nature, with the goal of better understanding the social acceptability of introduced species management (ISM), often labeled “invasive species,” in the U.S., “conducted an online experiment with vignettes describing hypothetical but realistic ISM scenarios, varying targeted taxon (insect or plant), control method (mechanical, chemical and b…

Tanzania at a Crossroads, Building an Organic Future after Decades of Toxic Pollution

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(Beyond Pesticides, July 9, 2025) Policymakers in Tanzania are calling for increased investments in organic agriculture for the 2025/26 fiscal year budget, demonstrating the increase in political will to advance new systems of farming and land management after decades of relying on Green Revolution-style, or chemical-intensive, policies. On June 20, various ministers representing the national gov…

Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Disproportionately Affected by Pesticides

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(Beyond Pesticides, July 8, 2025) A commentary published in Science of The Total Environment showcases the occupational and environmental exposure pathways of fossil-fuel-based pesticide and fertilizer products that children across the globe face, particularly in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries. The authors underscore “the urgent need for multi-level systemic change, resilient hea…

After Congress Passes “Big” Bill, Advocates Call for Protection of Environment, Public Health, and Democracy

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(Beyond Pesticides, July 7, 2025) At the end of the Independence Day weekend and after the Congressional passage of reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) on July 3, ongoing legislative proposals challenge the underlying principles of the Declaration of Independence—raising serious environmental and public health concerns and issues of democratic governance by local and state governments to ensure protecti…

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Protecting Health and the Environment This Independence Day

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(Beyond Pesticides, July 3-4, 2025) On this Independence Day, Beyond Pesticides calls for holistic solutions that, as articulated in the Declaration of Independence, move the nation to ensure “certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” The founders of the United States were aware of the existential threat of corruption to democratic institutions…

Case Studies of Cancer Diagnoses Link Pesticides to Cancer Crisis

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(Beyond Pesticides, July 2, 2025) An article in The New Lede entitled Seeking answers to a cancer crisis in Iowa, researchers question if agriculture is to blame documents case studies of cancer diagnoses linked to chemical-intensive agriculture. Current national cancer rates, according to the American Cancer Society, show that two million new cancer cases are projected to occur during 2025 in th…

Pesticide Contamination of Nonagricultural Streams Underscores Further Threats to Biodiversity

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(Beyond Pesticides, July 1, 2025) Published in Water Research, a study highlights the various routes for pesticide contamination, with the results identifying the presence of over 80 substances in streams without adjacent agricultural land use. “Our findings underscore the necessity of further investigating the non-agricultural entry pathways of pesticides and biocides to effectively mitigate the…

As Temperatures Rise, Organic Agriculture Eliminates Chemicals that Contribute to the Climate Crisis

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(Beyond Pesticides, June 30, 2025) Temperatures are hot—and getting hotter. Climate change is one of multiple crises that are compounding one another. Environmental disasters, including fires, floods, and severe weather events, are brought on or exacerbated by widespread reliance on disruptive chemicals, which played a role in a delayed start to the southern California rainy season, hurricane-for…
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