Give Up Pesticides (Try IPM Instead)

At home and in the garden, integrated pest management provides an effective, alternative strategy to the use of toxic pesticides.

Insects have plagued farmers and gardeners since the dawn of agriculture, and continue to munch their way through millions of dollars worth of valuable vegetation every year. But after the widespread commercialization of industrial chemicals in the U.S., scientists began to envision a more effective, safer way of dealing with pests, rather than simply dousing the countryside with toxic chemicals. Whether it's from pesticide residue on foods, decades-old home and garden pesticides lingering around or other pathways, exposure to pesticides could be the environmental trigger for a range of health problems, from autism to Parkinson's disease.

In the years after World War II, the concept of integrated pest management (IPM) began to develop as an alternative.Continue reading...

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