Certified Organic is Not the Only Path to Toxic-Free Food
January 20, 2026
One of the hardest parts about championing a future that doesn’t rely on pesticides is the
Pesticides & Health
Food and farming systems should cultivate life — not harm
Because our agrifood systems currently rely on massive amounts of pesticides in order to be productive and efficient, farmworkers, communities of color, rural communities and children are exposed to toxic cocktails of pesticides that we know cause irreversible health harms.
Cancer, developmental and neurological issues in children, endocrine disruption, reproductive harm, and Parkinson’s disease among other things are linked to pesticide exposure. In the United States, the regulatory system is such that pesticide corporations can provide their own research as evidence their products do not cause harm when used as directed, but this system allows for flawed research and doesn’t require companies to prove a product is truly safe in the context of compound lifetime exposures.
PAN advocates for the Precautionary Principle, a concept of agroecology that assumes a chemical is unsafe until proven otherwise, putting the onus on pesticide manufacturers to provide objective scientific research that proves their products will not cause harm before they are approved for use.
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Resources
Do you know what’s in your food?
Pesticides find their way onto and into the food all of us eat, and unfortunately most of us are born
Pesticides and Children
Pesticides and other toxic chemicals are undermining our children’s health and pediatricians have understood for decades that children are more
Reproductive Health
Scientists report disturbing reproductive health trends around the world, and research shows that pesticides are at least partly to blame.
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Tell your governor to halt lawsuit immunity for pesticides companies
Urgent! Tell your governor to halt lawsuit immunity for pesticides companies. Led by Bayer/Monsanto, the companies are pushing bills in many states
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