What you can do Introduction Nearly all the fruit and vegetables we eat have been grown using pesticides - chemicals designed to kill or damage pests such as insects, weeds or fungal diseases.
Many pesticides are registered poisons.
The liberal use of pesticides may increase crop yields and give us cheaper vegetables - but they come at a price in terms of damage to our health and the environment. It's just one of the reasons that Friends of the Earth is campaigning for Real Food - food you can trust. It's food free from genetically modified ingredients and toxic residues. Food from real farms, not factories. Food that safeguards wildlife, livelihoods - and you.