Maybe you doubt whether organic food would serve your health. However, a new U.N. report shows ‘catastrophic impacts’ of pesticides on human health and environment. An average of about 200,000 people die from the toxic exposure of pesticides per year across the world, the report says, calling for tougher global regulation of substances meant to control pests or weeds for plant cultivation.
If not for your own health, you should buy organic for the farmers—here’s why
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