REPLAY. Watch the show “Cash investigation” devoted to pesticides and their health hazard

They are called Syngenta, Monsanto, Bayer and Dow, you do not know perhaps. These are multinational agrochemical manufacturing pesticides used in agriculture. Their products are found in food, in tap water and even the air we breathe. Some are carcinogenic and neurotoxic, others are particularly dangerous for children endocrine disruptors. “Cash Investigation” had access to a confidential database on pesticide sales in France, product by product, department by department, between 2008 and 2013. On average, nearly 65 000 tonnes of pure pesticides that are applied every year on our territory. Today, the Hexagon is the largest consumer of pesticides in Europe.

Dangerous molecules
Since 1980, childhood cancer increased by 1% per year in France, approximately 2,500 additional cases each year. This is the second cause of death in children. Is there a link between these diseases and exposure to pesticides? For scientists around the world, there is little doubt.
Folpet produced by Bayer, atrazine Syngenta or chlorpyrifos-ethyl Dow Chemical. Behind these names unknown to the general public are hiding molecules with proven health risks. Molecules that contribute billions of euros to multinationals. After a year of investigation in France, Germany, Switzerland or the United States, “Cash investigation” reveals how some products put our children in danger.
Democracy polluted by pesticides
The last part of the investigation led the team of “Cash Investigation” in Hawaii. The climate of this heavenly archipelago allows four crops a year. This is why multinationals are testing their products. In what is probably the largest open-air lab for GMO experimentation in the world, they make heavy use of pesticides. There one counts ten times more birth defects than average in the United States. The mobilization of citizens has to pass a local law to limit the damage. Manufacturers have responded immediately, attacking this law in court, and they won. In Hawaii, the great game of democracy, it is the chemistry prevails.
“Cash Investigation. Chemicals, our children in danger,” a survey of Martin Boudot, released Tuesday, February 2 at 8:55 p.m. on France 2.
> And a book to go further: journalists Martin Boudot and Antoine Dreyfus Toxic publish, published Arena, a survey of the extent of damage caused by the pesticide industry.
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In France and around the world, doctors and researchers are launching the alert on the effects of chemicals on children’s development. Increase in childhood cancers, increase in birth defects or hormonal disorders explosion of autism: all these conditions might well have environmental causes. Pesticides appear on the front line in the reports of researchers. Six multinationals control the sector: Syngenta, Bayer, Monsanto, Dow, BASF and Dupont. They reigned almost unchallenged over a huge market that weighs fifty billion euros. For a year, the team of “Cash Investigation” has tracked their molecules. Some, dangerous, are invited in the air that children breathe every day.
Elise Lucet
France 2
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