The use of toxic pesticides to manage pest problems has become a common practice around the world. In addition, pesticides can be found in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink.
Pesticides are toxic substances deliberately added to our environment to kill living things.
They are produced specifically because they are toxic to something. When Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in 1962, she raised public awareness about the effects of pesticide use on our health and our environment. However, thirty years after Carson drew attention to the health and environmental impacts of DDT, use of equally hazardous pesticides has only increased. The dramatic increase of pesticide use has come at a price. We now know that pesticide use can be linked to a wide range of public health and environmental concerns.