Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen [1]

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By Garrick Dee [3]

Guest Writer for Wake Up World [4]

In this modern era of fast living we are so busy that we ignore the environment around us. Here’s a sobering fact – we are bombarded with pesticides, literally billions of pounds of them. Based on this report [5] by the EPA.gov, in 2007 over 5 billion pounds of pesticides was used in the United States alone and 877 million pounds of those are used in agriculture – yes that’s right that’s where our food source comes from.

On a side note: that report was done over 7 years ago so I’m guessing that number goes up.