Help ensure our children, family, pets and the environment are protected. As a horticulturalist, I encourage you to stop the use of harmful chemicals on green spaces where we work and play.
Evidence linking pesticides and cancer is suggestive and growing. The use of pesticides has no countervailing health benefit and the potential for harm exists.

Scientific evidence linking pesticide exposure and cancer risk for adults and children is suggestive and growing.
Following a literature review on the evidence linking pesticides and cancer, the Ontario College of Family Physicians (2004) concluded that there is a statistically significant association between pesticide exposure and certain types of cancer. (http://www.ccsevents.ca/site/www.ocfp.on.ca)
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and others have concluded that some substances in pesticides are known, probable or possible carcinogens.
The U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) has recognized that pesticides can be potentially cancer-causing for humans.
Individuals who do not work directly with pesticides can still be exposed to them by:

Pesticides that are sprayed can drift or runoff and mix with the air, soil, or a surrounding body of water. Pesticides can also collect on plants and objects that people can come in contact with.

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