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The use of pesticides in the domestic environment should be banned.

Submitted on Friday 5th August 2011

Published on Monday 22nd August 2011

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 22nd August 2012

Signatures: 10

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The use of pesticides in the domestic environment should be banned.

Additional Information

There should be a debate on the argument that the sale and use of pesticides in the domestic environment should be banned.

Pesticides not only affect intended 'pests' but also wide ranges of other insects and have many other effects on our environment, which we do not even fully understand.
Food supplies of larger animals are also being directly killed off with pesticides, causing starvation and poisoning of the predators themselves.

It is vital to understand the importance of insects at the core of the food web. A ban on domestic pesticide use would not lead to a boom in garden pests, but instead to a boom in the predators of those pests such as birds in our trees, hedgehogs in our gardens and fish in our rivers.


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