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Pesticides in Our Environment - The Risks and Benefits.
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May 27th , 2002 Pesticides in Our Environment - The Risks and Benefits Intro: Pesticides are useful and at the same time harmful. Thesis: By their very nature, most pesticides create risks to humans, animals, or the environment because they are designed to kill or otherwise adversely affect living organisms but at the same time, pesticides are useful to society because of their ability to kill potential disease-causing organisms and control insects, weeds, and other pests. Paragraph 1: History of pesticide regulation in Canada * 1969 - Canada's pest control products act (PCPA) passed. * 1987 - Law reform commission recommends 23 improvements to canada's pesticide law. * 1990 - Blue Book recommends major reform of pesticide legislation. * 1993 - Chretien promises to amend pesticide legislation in Red Book. * 1994 - 'Purple Book', government response to Blue Book recommends pesticide law changes. * 1995 - Responsibility for pesticides moved from Agriculture Canada to Health Canada. * 1996 - U.S.A passes substantial...
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