The pesticides sprayed on the vineyards of the Treviso area

Herbicide glyphosate poisoning

The herbicide glyphosate, used in pre-harvest, allows countries like Canada to export their products at extremely competitive prices that destroy the production sector in countries like Italy. In the last ten years, more than half of the companies that produced durum wheat have disappeared in the South. In Sicily, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria and Campania.The IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) on 20 March 2015 defined the herbicide as a 'probable human carcinogen', placing it in ...
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Fruits and vegetables contain endocrine disruptors: now you have to act!

A third of the fruit eaten in Europe contains residues of 27 endocrine disrupters that can harm the hormonal system of citizens. A report by the NGO Pesticide Action Network (PAN) reveals a love truth: we eat crap.  For vegetables, the amounts are slightly lower: 41% of those analyzed contain pesticides and 14% contain substances that affect the endocrine system. These chemicals are harmful to the hormone system, they are related to the onset of cancer or reproductive pathologies such as i...
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Plastic also in kitchen salt: the new inquisitive study

In the salt we commonly consume there are traces of plastic. Nobody is saved, from the United States to China, via Europe. That we live on a planet now invaded by plastic is nothing new, but now this polluting material risks ending up (it certainly already does), on our plates every day. New research previewed by the Guardian has shown that small particles have been found in sea salt used in various countries, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, China and the United States. The study comes withi...
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