Pesticides are used all around us, in homes and gardens, schools, parks and agricultural fields. All too often, these chemicals are allowed onto the market before their impacts are fully understood — and harms to our health and the environment are discovered years later. This Pesticides 101 explainer is a great overview.

Myths about pesticides are a testimony to the power of advertising, marketing and lobbying of pesticide corporations.

Since the mass introduction of pesticides into food and agriculture following WWII, control over the knowledge needed to grow food has been shifting from farmers to the laboratories financed by multinational corporations.