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“Pesticides. In heavy agricultural regions, they are more heavily linked to cancer than cigarettes. PFAS also lead to global contamination, the male fertility crisis across many species, hormone disruption, etc., and people will still defend it to no end. We could improve this a lot.”
“I come from a village of agriculture and farming, the entire place is just surrounded by vegetable and fruit fields. Parkinson’s and MS rates are really high where I live, more than half the older people I know are diagnosed, and were born before there were stricter regulations on pesticide use.”
—u/og_toe