Parks and city green spaces and school grounds are safe, pleasant and healthy places, right? Perhaps not, if they are sprayed with dangerous pesticides and herbicides. Cities are gradually waking up to the idea that they may be putting their populations and wildlife at risk by using these toxic substances. Some of them are already receiving demands that they refrain from their use, replacing them with organic alternatives. There is growing evidence that these substances can lead to liver stress causing accumulation of toxins in the body; can be descriptors of hormones, meaning that they are potentially harmful to reproduction and other hormone-related activities in the body, can lead to various other damaging developmental effects. A report by Friends of the Earth contains a long list of other dangerous consequences. Read more at http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/david-thorpe/248611/should-cities-be-banning-herbicides-pesticides-going-organic
