ENV100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: Radiography, Bioaccumulation, Broccoli
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Gmos paradoxically lead to an increase in the use of pesticides. Round up is a glyphosate (herbicide) created by monsanto. Glyphosate use has increased drastically over the last 10 years, but it"s been proven to be a carcinogen. On average, there should be 0 cases in such a small community of first nations for this rare cancer, but we"re still talking about a few individuals. You can imagine that people were pretty upset in their community, because they felt like that there was no response to the study. The flint water crisis has come up in the us presidential campaign in michigan, flint was the location of the gm plants, but it was closed and became an economically depressed area. The water from rivers also carries damaging contaminants, can lead to death and other diseases. Physical hazards just happen, and you can shield yourself from these hazards, because human activity increase the risk of those things happening.
