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Pesticide Hesitancy; Unintended Slippage

Pesticide Hesitancy Vaccine hesitancy is the polite characterization of those who refuse vaccinations against disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) categorizes anti-vaxxers as one of the top ten health threats.  The WHO’s sister agency, the Food & Agriculture Organization, should similarly characterize the anti-pesticide crowd as a top ten threat to global food security. Those who “hesitate” about the use of human biological protection and plant/animal biological protection share the same underlying bases – a distrust of the science and complacency about the threats. Both perceive wide ranging human and environmental health risks from using chemistry against nature’s diseases, and because those...

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