Pesticides have been a big topic, especially how much or how little farmers use.

It is a good idea in the long run because it is used to protect our produce so they are safer and easier to supply the demand for them.  Yet it is a little bit of a “double-edged sword,” as in it could hurt people and animals people benefit from.  But it would be inefficient to not use pesticides. Pesticides are used to keep pests away from our produce by killing them (hints in the word, “pest” and the suffix, “cide” which means something involved with death). They do a great job doing this as the supply of food people generate can supply multiple big box stores with wide selections of produce. Even though a good amount of insects are pests, and ¾ of the world’s animal species are insects.  Pesticides do seem dangerous but it really that dangerous to people and other animals, and if so is there any solutions. Said in the article Why Farmers Use Pesticides on Their Crops.  “Using pesticides can help a farmer profitably produce a crop in an area where he otherwise could not or to extend a growing season.”
    

Pesticides are still assumed to be dangerous.  Rumor is, that exposure can even cause negative effects that can spread even to people’s grandchildren.  Even though it is a rumor, they do contain some of the most dangerous chemicals known to man.  But only some of these symptoms to pesticide are true.  Bruce Ames who is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at The University of California says, pesticides do not cause human cancer, they actually have fewer carcinogens (which is a substance that can cause cancer), than a regular cup of coffee.  Pesticides do have a few flaws such as they are not the most beneficial and safe for animals that are not pests.
   

Also, they are designed to kill specific living creatures such as killing insects (insecticides), fungus (fungicides), rats and mice (rodenticides), other plants (herbicides), bacteria (bactericides), and larvae (larvicides).  They do a great job of doing this too, said in the article Why Farmers Use Pesticides on Their Crops “Farmers use pesticides because they act fast, quickly knocking out pests before the pests can destroy much of the crop.” These all are threats to our produce and without pesticides, these creatures would contaminate and/or consume our produce.  Even if the produce was being stocked at the same rate it would increase the market price for produce and that can actually cause cancer because people can not afford healthy produce and resort to unhealthy habits.
   

Pesticides do work though in the sense of what they should do.  But they can affect other animals negatively like bees and other species people benefit off from, but there is also narrow-spectrum pesticides.  Pesticides sometimes will accidently attack other species such as bald eagles and bees and other animals people cherish due to the chemicals it contains, but narrow-spectrum pesticides are also present.  They only attack one type of species of animal and specifically attack the deoxyribonucleic acid (or better known as DNA) of the animal that makes it that animal and finally kills it off.
   

But pesticides are still a “double-edged sword” they still can cause negative effects on people and other species, narrow-spectrum pesticides are not as available as most pesticides and multiple exposures can lead to very negative effects.  This is mainly due to the chemicals they contain.  Such as ammonia, arsenic, benzene and chloride. Which are very dangerous to humans and many other animals.  Fortunately, these chemicals are not in pesticides anymore.  Many organizations check pesticides such as the Food Quality Protection Act (also known as the FQPA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (also known as the EPA) makes sure to protect our produce from any potentially dangerous chemicals in pesticides. 
   

Pesticides are not as dangerous as they seem or as they are told.  This is due to the way they are designed and that is to keep pests away and at the same time be safe enough for consumers to purchase and eat.  If something were to seem unsafe many of organizations would have already checked the pesticide and approved it as being healthy.