“…every year 220,000 people are killed by pesticides worldwide.” – Vandana Shiva, The Killing Fields of MNCs.

Wait, seriously?

Causes of death:

1) Environmental and workplace contamination both on farms and pesticide manufacture plants.

2) Farmer suicides (particularly in India), related to the GMO market’s marriage to and reliance upon the agro-chemical industry.

3) Numerous cancers, auto-immune, dermatological, and neurological disorders associated with the synergistic effect of synthetic chemicals on the body.

Unnecessary death.

From a utilitarian moral foundation, perhaps the worst of all evils.

Another good reason to go Organic.