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This book is a sound science report about the consequences of pesticides to nature, health and environment.

The book shares essential insights into the use of pesticides in agriculture, discusses the politics, rhetoric and profits involved, addresses the potential health and ecological risks of pesticides in our daily lives, and debates possible solutions. Does sustainable agriculture exist, and is agriculture without pesticides possible at all?

Moreover, the author gives insight into his scientific work, the set-up of the experiments, and also writes about his very own experiences with the media and press after publication of his studies.

For many years, Johann G. Zaller, an ecologist at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, and his team, have been researching applied chemicals and their effects on the environment. Their findings, together with relevant literature and media reports, are presented in this book, which offers a unique resource for anyone who wants to know the nature and background of pesticides and how we come into contact with them in our daily lives.



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Daily Poison: Pesticides - an Underestimated Danger

Preface







What's the problem? Pesticides in everyday life







Agriculture in the pesticide treadmill







Pesticides are also used elsewhere







What substances are we talking about?







Loose approval and situation-elastic limits







War rhetoric sets the mood







Agroecosystems also have a social benefit







What are the consequences for nature and humans?







From "Silent Spring" to own experiments







Earthworms become lazy and have fewer offspring







Tadpoles with crippled tails







Bees and bumblebees without orientation







Birds and bats starve to death







Agroecosystems loose their self regulation







Getting used to constant pesticide applications: resistances







The pesticide boomerang is already on its way back







Various side effects on humans







Does the use of pesticides pay off at all?







Critical scientists come on the internet pillory







Wheres is the solution to the problem?







Agriculture without pesticides, is that even possible?







How should the growing world population be fed?







Food waste promotes pesticide use







Agricultural subsidies to curb use of pesticides







Politics should decide and act on the basis of facts







Epilog







References







Acknowledgements