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Pesticides DO NOT control pests!

They create thenit j
esticides are non-selective,
iiling off beneficial life /
orms and undoing natural checks

nd balances,

Jestroying predators of the pest’
creates a vacuum where surviving
pests can flourish (even a 1% |
survival rate Of~the pest can |

eave a immune pest and then f
fore and stronger pesticides

age necessary,

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thepast 30
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a

years, pestidie
ncreased twelvefold
and crop losses t

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have nearly doubled. |

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Pesticides have contaminated

water Suppiles, bankruped -. ‘
farmers, poisoned animals, and” |.
killed humans. |
know that the "political
muscle" of the pesticide industry
extends to the Dept. of Agri-
culture, the universities and

the press?

Did you

Safe, non polluting alternatives

will not be found and used until

the pesticide "Mafia" is stopped.
a arene ae
1978, pesticide sales in ~

anada amounted to 200 million’

jollars with the pesticide

industry aiming for an ever-

i easing market.

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d. ceuch, eat or breathe! |
oo getmaking areas that may mean th

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Cancer in the last quarte ot |
‘a century can be considered a “
Social disease, a disease whose 2
cause and control are rooted in ¢.
the technology and economy of our

ociety." Dr. U, Saffioli, ;
\ U.S. Nat. Cancer Inst-<

ee

*At the present rate, one in four
persons in North America will get
cancer - one in five will die.

CONCERNED ABOUT CATICER?

*According to the

World Healt
Organization

and the B.C. Cance
; Foundation, between 80 & 90% of
all cancers are environmentally

“saused ~ in other words, by thing
we

;*There is a delay of many
etween exposure to ac
causing agent

years dat:
ancer-4 ON
and the first Signs

f cancer - we should take action

NOW to ensure our future health.

oT ” yy - 8
a u imow that cancer

ading cause of death for chia en|
nder 15? Babies are now born (|
with a heavy burden of residues
that will continue to accumulate
until the body breaks down. ;
(In 1978 at St. Vincent's hospital:

five-year old child had a
radical mastectomy (breast remova
- although there have been others
this w the youngest case.
esticides and herbicides a? :
insidious killers. We are often
exposed without knowing and they [
do not leave fingerprints on the
nborn.

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WHAT CAN

Avoid every possibie ox

posure
to pesticide

S and herbicides.

Do not use products containing
herbicides such as 2,4-b (vieed

& Feed which is the mos+ popular
weedkiller for lawns) but insteac
use safe methads_such_as cultura.
controls. A weed is not as :
Gmportant as a healthy chila!™

Insist that hazardous chenicals

are not used in schoolgrounds ,

Schoolrooms, parks and public

places,
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Get involved in current issue

and participate in decision.

ife and
for you and your Tamily!

SUGGESTED READING

Silent Spring - Rachel Carson.
Written in 1962 to alert the
public and we are still allowing
the use of the dangerous compoun:
in growing amounts!

[he Pesticide Conspiracy - Dr.
Robert Van Den Bosch.

Written in 1978 ~

look at pest cont:

e who keep us

adly chemicals.

Politics of Cancer - Dr
Epstein.

» Samuel

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the Cancer Connection - Larry
. Agvan.

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