In its latest newsletter, The David Suzuki Foundation takes aim at an altogether new target: flowers.

The majority of cut flowers you’ll find at your local florist are grown in developing countries, where growers frequently use pesticides that may be banned in other countries. Heavy use of pesticides get on worker’s clothes, in their skin and lungs, and are carried to their homes. Pesticides also contaminate the soil and seep into water supplies. And those same pesticide-laden flowers end up in the vase on your dining table. But these harmful chemicals aren’t restricted to developing nations. The pesticides that your neighbors use to kill insects and weeds in their yards also work a little too well. These toxic chemicals have both short-term and long-term health effects. Pesticide exposure is associated with a frightening list of health effects, such as increased risks of cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, birth defects and organ damage.

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