Is Parkinson's disease related to pesticide use? | DW Documentary

Around the world, more and more people are developing Parkinson's disease. Many of those affected have chosen a supposedly healthy life among orchards or vineyards in the countryside. Is the disease related to the use of pesticides?
"I noticed it when I was pruning roses," says Ulrich Elixmann. His hands simply didn't function anymore. He saw a doctor, and the diagnosis was a shock: He had Parkinson's disease. Today he is 60 years old. He takes 13 tablets a day, does gymnastics, occupational therapy and speech therapy. He hopes to slow the disease’s progression, and with it symptoms like a stiffening face and increasing immobility. But the questions continue to gnaw at him: Why Parkinson's, and why him? And, why are other gardeners and farmers he knows also being affected?
The number of Parkinson's sufferers has doubled since the 1990s. In Germany alone, about 400,000 people have it. Researchers like Bas Bloem of Radboud University in the Netherlands are calling it a pandemic: They say it is the fastest growing neurological disease in the world, and is mainly caused by environmental factors. Heavily industrialized countries are particularly affected, as numerous chemicals find their way into the environment.
Despite more and more studies showing increased risks among agricultural workers and gardeners, Parkinson's is not yet considered an occupational disease in Germany. But in France, things are different. Sylvie Berger is from Bordelais, one of Europe's major wine-growing regions. Particularly high amounts of pesticides are used there, and Sylvie Berger, who worked in viticulture, now suffers from Parkinson's. If she receives an occupational disability pension, then why not the gardener Ulrich Elixmann from Germany?
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[@susanbrown2909]

My father was a horticulturist and would never use pesticides..for weeds we used salt. I still use salt today on my patio..keeps weeds at bay for upto 9months. He used other ways for pests .. He lived to a ripe old age.

[@heartysteer8752]

Why are you boasting about using a toxic pesticide? Substances added to soil to kill unwanted plants is by very definition a toxin and a pesticide. Just that in your personal opinion what you are doing isn't a substantial concern. However, high soil salinity is an increasing problem for food production. It reduces yields and nutritional value of food. Commercial pesticides are generally biological compounds that soil bacteria and sun quickly break down into their harmless elemental components. Salt, in contrast, accumulates over time. Organic use of 'natural' pesticides such as copper is also far more of a danger than some 'commercial' pesticides.

[@heartysteer8752]

BTW, I have used paraquat and my mother does have Parkinson's disease. We also have land that is used to grow organic crops. My point is that hardly anything doesn't have consequences. We need to earnestly work to understand what the risks truly are and how to balance them as a society. I encounter too many organic proponents that fail to understand the environmental harms associated with organic production.

[@Ida-Adriana]

@@VeganV5912 Stop with the propaganda, plant diets are harmful especially to women and mental health. Plant oxalates and lectins cause mental illness. You should research before spewing propaganda, what a LONG term vegan or plant based diet does to your health. I'm speaking from bitter experience, so don't get triggered please, am trying to help you.

[@isabellamusulo9190]

Susan Brown: Instead of salt, which is harmful too, you can use stinging nettle, which is very natural and effective.

[@ronaldmachado757]

@@Ida-Adriana I agree...was reading Ron Lovesdale about insulin and leptin resistance being implicated in Covid deaths but in my country people faint if they smell meat cooking...so fantastically fanatic ..

[@aghvelniazi7042]

I in Pakistan started organic agriculture. Surprisingly results are very good. No use of fertilizer and pesticides. Taste , size and quality of food is exceptional.

[@randyjohnson9772]

REAL FERTILIZER USE TO BE CALLED ANIMAL DUNG FROM ANIMALS THAT EAT REAL FOOD

[@aghvelniazi7042]

@@randyjohnson9772 Its not like that

[@KittenBowl1]

@@randyjohnson9772 lol, whitewashed harmful farming is what you are preaching... In reality, organic farming is nothing like that.

[@rosebud2222]

Aghvel Niazi 👍🕊

[@SharonBakar]

@@randyjohnson9772 You can compost vegetable material and make excellent compost. Try it.

[@chineseboxer108]

My high school science teacher taught us; "anything designed to kill, kills and doesn't stop at what it was originally designed to kill."

[@rubenverheij4770]

Over-fishing kills too! China is killing the oceans!

[@williamghost1516]

@@rubenverheij4770 Everyone is killing the oceans... some more than others... Humans are now running out of fresh drinkable water Globally and we have now started building desalination plants that are going to increase the salinity of the oceans and kill all kinds of living organisms, fish and mammals who can't survived... it would be like you being forced to drink salt water... you'd be dead in just a few days...

[@williamghost1516]

well that seems to be an open statement... almost everything, in excess, kills... and I'm not promoting pesticides... but because of modern pesticides, we have increased the global food supply so people can eat and less people starve... how many people starve, each year, in third world countries who can't afford modern pesticides when their crops are devastated by insects or birds, not to mention drought or damage from storms... sadly, because of our population lives are traded for the greater good... wars over oil, water, or even farmlands... people die in construction every day... worse in second and third world countries... people die when their simple mud brick/cinderblock homes collapse in an earthquake because there are no building codes or no enforcement... picking just ONE thing to bitch about is futile and somewhat insignificant... how many people have died building homes and high-rise buildings? Do we stop building because people die?... 38,000 people died in vehicle crashes in 2020... not counting those injured or crippled... do we go back to horses?... 😉

[@Gurj101]

Exactly

[@Gurj101]

@@williamghost1516 organic food tastes different. Even my relatives who are farmers never spray the crops they are gonna use for personal stuff. They only spray those that they have to sell to increase productivity. It really does man i have tried. The pesticide grown food is bland and smells funny sonetimes even after cooking.

[@ericrawson2909]

To me the use of pesticides is one of a number of subjects where I am mystified about why the public do not strongly react. I remember being on holiday in France about 40 years ago and spraying was going on nearby. There was a very strong smell in the air so I held my breath and went inside. I was deeply suspicious of these chemicals, and it looks like I was right. I will never understand how people get so worked up about trivial issues and ignore big ones. I guess it's a lack of understanding of science. Unfortunately the recent statements of " we are following the science", when said science is chosen from experts biased towards the desires of politicians and profit can only serve to make people less trusting of science. I despair for the future of humanity. I believe I have lived in the best of times, and things are rapidly deteriorating.

[@susantaylor927]

I totally agree with you! Exon scientists knew that Global warming would be a result of more use of fossil fuels. That was in the '70's and really now we are grown up, can see the science isn't rocket science. Heat plus heat equals more heat. 👀 I have been ecologically aware since I was 12 and have tried to live a green life. Raising awareness at my children's school 30 years ago! Always talking about issues that folk didn't want to hear. Showing we can make differences by working together. Contacting councils about issues etc. I am so sad to hear about the pesticides and the damage they have done to folk. So sad to hear of the state of our soil. I always try to buy organic. Always bought free range eggs since 1970's! So hard always pushing against the tide! But the negatives always make me stronger because this planet we live on is Amazing! I will soon be 65 and even though I have many health issues Iwill keep fighting! It is best to light one small candle than complain about the darkness. Not my words, but words that I feel are me! Thank you!🙏

[@cesarwarrior3723]

Yes, Great

[@Want2cJesus]

"Scientism" is often mistaken for actual science.

[@bobs182]

We make a 1% solution of neurotoxins to use to immediately kill insects and we make a 500 pound bomb of 100% neurotoxins we call WMDs to kill people. Sarin and Malathion are almost identical.

[@thesquatchdoctor3356]

Humanity was always going to have growing pains. We may have shot the neighbor's whale with a BB gun and experimented with some questionable chemicals, but we can still grow into a responsible adult. We're doing way better on so many social issues these days at least.

[@ArizonaAkinTv]

Damn man. I’m 22 and put a lot of miles into the years so far, and I’m just now coming around to the realization of how horrible serious health issues are. money cannot buy you everything. I feel sorry for the men and women who have to suffer from this unfortunate disease.

[@violahamilton782]

Great that you are aware, paying attention! Be well!

[@AnitaSouthall]

Education is the key to a great life 🙌

[@wallybingbang4350]

Take care of your health young fella Be careful with alcohol, tobacco, sugar, over eating Exercise minimum 3 times a week Health is Wealth Good luck

[@JasonMcVayStuffeses]

i grew up in an agri community in rural arkansas. there were WAY too many people with parkinson's there, including my dad.

[@CynthiaWord-iq7in]

Didn't know that about Arkansas. A corollary to all this, many urban poor families living in housing by negligent slumlords, used bug spray profusely to keep their kids clean and welll...meanwhile inhaling those pesticides enough to get Parkinson's by 50, and we now know it is responsible for all that childhood asthma! Chemical cos. are still adding more and more toxins to the land through the years, with no consequence. No place is safe any longer--they even figured out first, how to use them in plastic water bottles or inside soup cans.

[@silverforest4682]

Pesticides can effect nerves of humans.

[@OmmerSyssel]

Shall we bet, still no-one is growing or eating organic food?

[@donnahersey9813]

My father raised yew trees and was told to use diazinon. He developed Parkinson’s by his early fifties and eventually died from it after a long debilitating struggle. I hate the chemical companies that knew how horrible it was and ONLY CARED FOR PROFIT. They let a good, kind man suffer and die for their greed. And deprived me of my dad.

[@stephaniesamra7960]

Oh God. That’s just awful for you - I feel your pain - blessings 🙏

[@flash_flood_area]

I'm so sorry. I shudder when I see the chemicals, like RoundUp, still for sale at places like Home Depot and Lowe's, etc. I worked at a nursery in the 1980s, and I think our place sold diazinon. Ugh!

[@Jadeserphant]

@Donna Hersey......Me too. I miss my daddy everyday. I'm so sorry for your loss. Please know that you are not alone. These companies are run by people who have holes in their hearts. They don't know love or peace or what a happy, loving family is like......so they try to fill that hole with money and riches. That only makes the hole larger. We should be able to hold these companies accountable.

[@wayneessar7489]

Diazanon was very popular for root pests here, it was also only labeled in English and French but there are seven languages spoken in this area. The label is considered the law but many people cannot read the label. This applies to modern products too.

[@martijnm4905]

I’m really sorry for your loss! I was diagnosed at the age of 43 years with Parkinson’s disease, almost 8 years ago. I’ve gone through the debilitating process and have undergone surgery last summer for the deep brain stimulation. I’ll absolutely agree that’s a tough struggle. But also have to correct on the fact that one doesn’t die from this disease! It doesn’t takeaway the fact that your father has gone through tough struggle!

[@intuneorange]

My uncle had Parkinsons . In his own words "I came back from WW2 and used rough pestcides and fertilizers in dangerous quantities At our small farm For a few years .I now now it was wrong and it gave me the illness. " He went Organic and tried to warn his friends.

[@reneedaniel2881]

My father was exposed to DDT while serving in Vietnam and was part of a settlement that acknowledged his parkinson's was caused by DDT in the pesticides, he died 18mo ago. It's in the chemicals we use and is never going away.

[@andreah6379]

I grew up in the 60's, in California. My parents moved us into a brand new home that had serious ant problems. DDT powder was regularly sprinkled inside and outside our home. It makes me sick to think that anybody is more concerned with making money than the possible negative effects these dangerous chemicals can have in our lives.

[@MonsterMacLLC]

There were some thefts at military bases just before they were shut down in my area. Many of those same bases are where most of their Vietnam soldiers were trained housed or shipped out from. I often wonder what went missing from those sites, both when they were opened and once closed. At least one is a prison now so those sites are still exposing people.

[@theCosmicQueen]

DDT is now illegal at least in the 1st world. and has been for several decades. now it's other chemicals like Roundup and other things.

[@underthetornado]

Agent Orange

[@thesky4eva]

Heartbreaking that for reasons of correlation v causation we’re not pricing these social and environmental costs. A good reminder for me to make better choices as a consumer and may my organic garden live on.

[@healthylife966]

Well said. Support organic farms. Organic attracts higher prices because it’s labour intensive when no pesticides are used. GM food is also another issue. Buy non GM and organic.

[@petergorm]

This is scary. Could happen to anyone on a global scale. Thank you, DW, for always being on top of things. I worry what is next.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for watching! Our job is not to spread fear, however, but to inform!

[@snookerb6777]

@@DWDocumentary You need to investigate GeoEngineering-that’s wha’s causing PARKINSONS

[@gbob9971]

@@DWDocumentary I'm beLIEving lately that Polio was carbon tetrachloride (cotton seed business), lead arsenate, DDT, etc. poisoning.

[@prameelaa9307]

My mother is suffering from Parkinson's disease . I have never seen such a complicated disease like this .thanks for the informative video. Regards from India

[@roddymcniven8734]

I’m sorry to hear that, truly, but did she use pesticides? Is she a farmer?. I think that this subject needs to be looked at with a bit of perspective.

[@gg_ingy]

@@roddymcniven8734 It's not just farmers. I saw a story about a football coach with parkinsons who was always on the pitch that got sprayed with pesticides.

[@shubhamxjoshi7570]

Prameela I can understand your emotions even my mother is also suffering from this disease

[@Unknown1880]

Well, in India they are using even worse chemicals and many of them are forbidden in Europe. Keep in mind that a worker has wears a short, flip flop shoes and a T-shirt and Parkinson is just the tip of an iceberg what you can expect.

[@gotfan7743]

@@Unknown1880 In India most farmers are not rich enough to afford fertilizer let alone those uber expensive pesticides. Indian farmers use pesticides but not to the level as in Europe and North America.

[@kinleyjackson4405]

Interesting. I have more than 4 family members, grandfather, uncle, cousins who all worked on farms and all died from Parkinson's. I truly believe the chemicals have had something to due with the rise in diagnoses.

[@theancientsancients1769]

My condolences. It's very sad to hear that ! I'm certain the environment plays a crucial role in people health

[@tlockerk]

There are some familial genetics (at least among Germans who immigrated to US) that may also contribute, particularly for early onset, believe under age 45- 50.

[@namelessonewanderland3428]

This started in the early 80's when supermarkets were already replacing/killing small businesses and smaller farms practicing organics. When you shop at supermarkets, you're essentially supporting industrial farming.

[@wytrose4602]

Thank Gates monsondo Beyer..

[@bookbeing]

So sorry for your loss. I've met several parkinson's sufferers too, one was a florist, one a painting contractor, one an elderly former psychiatrist and violinist from Germany. Small Farmers have it the hardest. They are swallowed up and pushed out by factory farms whose owners are disconnected and live far away from their fields. For the rest of us, it's hard to avoid the crop dusters that fly over and fill the skies with poisons.

[@emilyfredrickson9009]

My grandparents were almond growers in the central valley of California. My grandfather died of cancer and Parkinson's (yes he had both) in 2013. My grandmother (his wife) developed Parkinson's last year and has gone downhill steeply.

[@3_Klos1122]

Sorry to hear. Praying for you and your grandma. My dad was a farmer and died at 63 yrs old from cancer. I know a lot of farmers with Parkinson’s

[@linanicolia1363]

We are victims of our environment that is anything but friendly. It has been compromised. We have no where to hide.

[@markymark560]

Farming and pesticides have just about wiped out insects and I have great concern how this will pan out long term. In the 70s and 80s a car windscreen on the motorway would end up covered in dead insects, so many the wipers would not work properly. Today, I can drive 100 miles and not hit one insect.

[@lunafringe10]

I still see a lot of insects, but not , or on farmland . 😩

[@lunafringe10]

It’s too sad, distressing to see how a criminal industry, Overpopulation destroy nature

[@martinm8991]

I noticed the same, but comparing early 2000 and just 10 years later - the difference of dead insects on the windscreen is around 1 compared to 100 before. 😯

[@KittenBowl1]

I still hit significant number of insects in rural sides. Obviously not in cities.

[@martinm8991]

@@KittenBowl1 I was comparing the same route with forests, meadows and fields on the side.

[@CHMichael]

Once upon a time all food was organic.

[@ntatemohlomi2884]

And in most places in the world that's less than a hundred years ago that these poisons reached us.

[@joe6pak14]

At that time the world only had a population of 2.5 billion and even then much of it was either starving or undernourished. We are at 3X that now and will be adding another 2.5 billion people to the planet in the next 30-40 years. I have worked in agriculture all my life with organic and non organic. If we went total organic, the population would revert much closer to the 2.5 billion than the 10 billion that we are headed for.

[@gg_ingy]

@@joe6pak14 My grandmother still had a pig in her own backyard, this was less than 100years ago. With our big population, people should also produce food, instead of just consume it.

[@joe6pak14]

@@gg_ingy I just don't think most people in the world have that luxury. I myself live on a 5 acre lot in rural Minnesota. Only 1 out of 6 Americans live in rural counties. 5 out of 6 live in suburban or urban centers. Being able to grow a garden can be challenging in such small spaces and especially at the further north latitudes such as where I live. Having livestock and people intermingled in close proximity is not only pollutant problem be it smell, noise, fecal waste, etc; it's also severe public health threat as it gives viruses and other infectious agents more opportunity to jump species.

[@heartysteer8752]

@@joe6pak14 Absolutely agree.

[@casteretpollux]

A friend died of stomach cancer young. He grew his own food and used insecticide. He laughed at me not using it. I know he's only one person so not a significant statistic. But surely substances designed to kill can't be healthy?

[@francinejean1430]

Stomach cancer had link with helicobacter pylori.....and what's other?

[@noeminoemi1350]

Why would he grow his own food and then use chemicals... there's also the chemical weed killer, those are cancerous too.

[@patriciastokes6279]

I know of someone who died of colon cancer who grew their own vegetables without the use of pesticides.

[@LiZa-nn3vg]

noemi noemi maybe he does not like his greens with worm holes?

[@noeminoemi1350]

@@patriciastokes6279 they say its processed meats and lots of red meats that are one of the contributors with colon cancer

[@brianross7643]

This documentary gives an explanation of what happened to my mother. She grew up in a farming town and her father used insecticide on his apple trees. At about 55 she was diagnosed with parkinsons and later developed ALS and past away this summer.

[@henrietta9206]

condolences

[@prolificlife1710]

May God bless her soul

[@davidhoogendyke2774]

The chemical companies and governments have sold us a pack of lies for decades and decades...It'll never stop.

[@christopherhuntington3484]

:/

[@namelessonewanderland3428]

Support the local small business and try to avoid supermarkets. It is one way to put a stop to the big 5. RiP to your Mom.

[@mooonienelson2126]

I wish DW would do a documentary into the use of these pesticides in oral canine medications. One side effect is seizures and I'm wondering if the rising cancer rates in canines might be because we fed our beloved canines "medicines" to help them combat fleas, ticks and heartworm. We've feeding them poison.

[@catalinnicolae4443]

You are 100% right, western world feeds poison to their animals, in Sydney Australia mountins of poison is used to controll pests and weeds, rain transports poison into ocean and makes whales to beach themselvs, we are killing life on this planet for sure

[@kinkle_Z]

Many say that cancer rates in dogs and cats arise from the carbohydrate kibble that is the primary food for many pets. Cats and Dogs are CARNIVORES. Feeding them highly processed carbs is what makes them fat, rots their teeth and kills them early.

[@leahzuzuleah6109]

Yes ,that might be very much accurate i heard it being debated before actually ..

[@theunboiledfrog1258]

Yeeeaaaassss! Our beloved Shepard died from snout cancer. I swear it was the flea treatments 😡

[@Psychiatrick]

pHarma is of Cain ... code of Cana'an law, sodomy, pedophilia, Ba'al priests = Vatican = Hittite = Genesis 36:2

[@chubbieminami3274]

I eat my home grown vegetables mostly during summer. It is so good to know you are eating something very safe.

[@jeanmyers1787]

Me too

[@azteca8037]

As long as you don't spray anything on them

[@00pisani49]

Right now , I'm nursing my father who is desperate to remember the strong man he was before. Parkinsons is an agonizing deterioration and slipping away of coordination and cognition. Everyday he fades away more. His movements mirror the slow collapse of an insect you spray with insecticide. He worked in gardens his entire life and used Round Up with the minimal precautions that were known before. His dNA test showed he doesn't carry the genetic marker for Parkinsons, so it is Environmentally caused. Let this be a warning to you all. Eat organic as much as you can and don't drink well water in agricultural areas!!!

[@ntatemohlomi2884]

In my part of rural South Africa (Limpopo) pesticide use amongst subsistence and small farmers is rising to pandemic levels. And most don't even understand it's "proper" use. They are being sprayed indiscriminately within residential backyard plots. And them companies keep pumping the poisons out, with not a bother. It is scary what's coming.

[@Brentford704]

I'm from SA as well. I hope they can do a study here as well to determine the cause of Parkinson's in SA.

[@richardwebb9532]

Not to mention two-step and other pesticides being available in spaza shops too....howzit from jo-burg🍻

[@OmmerSyssel]

@@Brentford704 no study is required to know poison is dangerous! Get a grip and produce your food organically, and only buy such products. It's not that complicated being responsible for your own country! Although it's something new to that population, busy ruining what white people created!

[@tyoko6691]

The EU can set an example by banning these harmful chemicals from being sprayed on our food. These are real issues that the public pay attention to. We should demand our government to act fast before it's too late.

[@spacecobra3101]

The worlds government don’t give a crap. Making money is more important

[@a-k6575]

And imports from NZ, check Tescos'. NZ has the highest rate per capita of cancer patients.

[@vasunarasimhan5541]

The corporates rule the world. So question of ban doesn't arise.

[@brianmreschke3441]

And other countries must follow suit and not take advantage of the counties who choose to accept the burden of these important initiatives. Making these important changes are as difficult as convincing people to take a vaccine. It is best to make these changes as a simpler heart to heart agreement between the people on opposite sides of the issue. We have all been blinded by marketing and corporate blindness to the consequences of their singular focus on the bottom line. We would like to think that we can hold on to the beliefs we've held for years but how were the facts that helped convince us to believe a certain thing established?

[@juozassakavicius4726]

when they bans it, you won't have to worry about anything- you won't have any food on your table anyway...

[@legionvad9744]

My dad has parkinson ,it scares and breaks my heart seeing his condition deteriorate every passing day. Lately dad can barely move, spends most time in chair or bed. He can barely eat or drink without choking everytime. We tried every form of treatment and we continue to seek every new treatment but nothing seems to help. I don't think i am mentaly strong like dad to continue living with parkinson. If someday i get parkinson i'll take the easy way out before i lose my motor skill.

[@zahrafahad4380]

😥

[@dreamsofturtles1828]

I live on a pretty small income, but i do not hesitate to spend extra in locally grown, organic produce. The farmers live where they grow & dont want their kids (or anyone else) getting sick.

[@panchopaulo111]

I'm Chilean and I used to work in a farm in Australia. People used to make fun of me for using overalls and respirator while spraying the crops. They also tried to explain to me that it was fine not to use anything. That nothing would happen to me as the chemicals were safe, and that the label warnings were false because "my friend drank a full bottle of this to commit suicide but he only get sick". Many of them and even their own wives had different types of cancer and they still dind't use any kind of PPE. I also have experience working in Chilean farms and there's no difference. I expected more from a so called "first world country" Now I'm back in Chile trying to find an office job. I really don't want to get back to farming.

[@theCosmicQueen]

work to stop all the poisons use on crops. get funding donations . online , from governments, etc.

[@OmmerSyssel]

@@theCosmicQueen BLABLABLA Follow your mouth and don't buy anything but organic products. Lot's of people are whining but doing nothing themselves.

[@OmmerSyssel]

Well done protecting yourself. There's lots of organic farming in Chile, do you buy their products?

[@harared831]

That was hard to watch. Lost a cousine 50 years old to Parkinson last year. He was a heavy industrial worker. No one else in the family have it or have had it in the past.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and sharing your experience. Sending you our condolences.

[@marypaquet3372]

Harared My condolences also. Zero use of toxic chemicals would be the goal someday hopefully. One thing for sure we would be much better off.

[@MrToontuber]

Welder?

[@m.j.golden4522]

And what's worse, all the wildlife subjected to our poisonous adventures into stupidity and brain damage affecting them as well.

[@pravachan4355]

There are so many consequences from using these poisons. They get washed into the land and the water table, rivers, lakes and then the ocean. You can see this from satellite pictures. The Mississippi and many other rivers empty into the Gulf of Mexico. The beaches and the sea water are so polluted in that area. A lot of times it's not safe to swim there. They get poisonous algae growing in the ocean. The marine life too gets this poison. Keep in mind it's not just the farmers but individual homeowners who use fertilizers and pesticides to keep their lawns greener contribute to this massive problem.

[@georgeikinya2779]

Thank much for this concern. It hard to imagine how the wildlife think of us

[@davidhoogendyke2774]

Money over nature.

[@namelessonewanderland3428]

If you avoid supermarkets owned by the big 5, you'll promote lower organic prices and eat healthier. You'll also to put a stop to the big 5 abuses. Help me spread the message. Thank you.

[@davidhoogendyke2774]

@Heloise O'Byrne Everthing down the food chain absorbs the poison. The chemical companies are liars because insects adapt within a few generations to every new poison.Chemicals ate getting more deadly and hang around in the soil and water table forever. Farmers have been lied to, and poisoned by the Agro Chem. business for decades and decades. It will neevr stop.

[@ruthslone2992]

As someone suffering from a different progressive, neuro-degenerative disorder for over 30years, I can tell you that this is a long, hard way to go. You don’t know what sensations you’re losing until you have lost them completely.

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

At least you don't have CJD

[@jeanmyers1787]

I’m so sorry

[@jercasgav]

I hear you Ruth! I have been suffering from a genetic condition for 12yrs now, and everything has changed since then. You wonder sometimes how long the suffering will continue, and cherish having a "good" day when they happen. People that are healthy take so much for granted.

[@ProtonOne11]

I know at least one farmer that was providing crop spraying services for most of the smaller farms in the area. So he was working with all kinds of agrochemicals almost every day for about 20 years. He died of cancer before turning 50. I'm not sure he got the cancer from the chemical exposure, but when i heard that he had died, that idea that it was caused by the chemicals was the first thing that came to my mind.

[@sarahbowman7566]

Devastating condition and realising my Grandfather was likely doomed since his younger days as well him just being left to decline with no real attempt to help him in any way... Horrified

[@timebot000]

What's so deja Vu bizarre is that 50 years ago we knew these things and insisted on having small orchards and farms so as to grow organic and have better control . Us 'hippies' avoided all such toxins way back then. Of course we were made fun of...Now it seems no one listened or stopped using poison on food crops, and then moved to mega farming and mega spraying. Perhaps after modern man has destroyed itself we will start over without toxic industries

[@808bigisland]

Eating your veggies is good for you. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. I gardened all my life. Never used commercial pesticides and fungizides. To me most people think slow and move weird. I think the Parkinsons problem is very very widespread and starts much earlier.

[@marypaquet3372]

808 Big Island And I agree with you 100 percent!!!!!

[@namelessonewanderland3428]

Supporting the local small businesses instead of those supermarkets would be a great start. I do all my shopping locally for groceries and bakeries.

[@btrueeth]

@@namelessonewanderland3428 what does locally mean? Farmers market?

[@namelessonewanderland3428]

@@btrueeth It simply means you avoid shopping at supermarkets as much as possible, and you shop at specific places who sell their own produce without a sly smile and a lie to your face. And knowing you are part of the problem is when you had to ask.

[@namelessonewanderland3428]

Have a great weekend everyone!

[@100200songlin]

I’m almost certain this is also one of the reason why infertility is such a big issue in developed country but not so much in 3rd word country.

[@ntatemohlomi2884]

Sadly I should report their use is steadily rising. I'm a farmer in rural South Africa, and I have been troubled for years now by their growing and indiscriminate use.

[@nntflow7058]

I'm pretty sure family planning is the main reason to why. Also people CHOOSE to have less babies. Let's not pretend like this isn't a choice as well.

[@pinschrunner]

Correct! Glyphosate on gmos has birth defects and infertility as do the heavy metals in regular vackseenes, aluminum and mercury

[@mabock1]

I'm from a developing country where palm oil is the commodity. The last 10 years have me seing my family members who lead a healthy lifestyle on hypertension meds. Our village is surrounded by palm plantation and our water is not treated. So many deaths caused by some sort of cancer and so many suddenly discover they have high blood pressure. Why? This is certainly not just a developing country problem.

[@theprophetez1357]

Song you are right. Pesticide poisoning stole my manhood, and left me a eunuch.

[@eliakimjosephsophia4542]

Most of the Italian farmers didn't use the fertilisers and pesticides, most of the Italian farmers put the quality of their food above profits. One of the reasons the UN Agricultural Division is in Italy.

[@thecoi7672]

Makes sense. My daughter interacted with neighbots plants which had been exposed to weed killer and pesticides. She suffered a seizure not to long after. The doctor said what she experienced could not be classified as a seizure unless it happened more than once. She has never played in the yard since due to their constant use of weed killers and pesticides. She has never suffered from another seizure episode since. Of course there is a neurological adverse reaction in humans to weed killers and pesticides. The plant life and insect life pesticides kill are no different from human life.

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

plant life the same as human life? go back to high school biology.

[@apteryx7080]

polio was caused by DDT exposure , not a germ. that was a great con, they got away with it !

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

@@apteryx7080 how did polio exist pre-DDT then.? you are repeating a falsehood propagated by mark blaxill, (no scientific background) desperate for attention after his co-authored book "Age of Autism" was shown to be junk science

[@apteryx7080]

@@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu never heard of him, nor his book. DDT is the main protagonist in the epidemics occurring around the time the bogus vax was developed, but it's by no means the only nerve toxin involved there were toxic chemicals in the environment going back in time.. arsenic springs ro mind, the others I would need to look up again , particularly the heavy duty pest killing chemicals of the 1800s used to grow food

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

@@apteryx7080 if you are referring ro paris green (cupic acetoarsenite), lead arsenate, etc- DDT was a vast improvement in safety. Still no evidence of any connection with polio whatsoecer. Please consider FDR - polio victim long before DDT was commercialized

[@marcev3431]

I just lost my dear friend to Parkinson's related disease, and I am sure that the use of pesticides by him as an avid gardener had to do a lot with his condition. He love gardening all his life.

[@veawbpun8514]

I lost my dad last year, he battled the disease for over a decade. I miss him very much. He also loved gardening but he never used pesticides although his wife did

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

correlation is not causation

[@Gezira]

@@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu "correlation is not causation" Yes we know and we also know that there is a thing called the precautionary principle, do I have to explain what it is or do you already know?

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

@@Gezira I do know it and also know that i it s largely paranoia sponsored by people offering a different product or those who little understand about scientific research. It is promoted by the idiots called the "canary party"

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

ps: the driving force of the Canary Party is unethical, ambulance-chasinng shysters and utter nitwits such as Blaxill & Olmstead

[@vanbly.1479]

It all boils down to greed over ethics on the part of chemical companies and corrupt regulators.

[@jeanmyers1787]

Also people buying cheapest vegetables

[@anthonygato407]

nope. these people have billions. they do this because they literally are intentionally killing off the entire human population world wide. well, the WEF specifies it as 7 of every 10 humans will be dying off over the next 3 - 5 years.

[@OmmerSyssel]

And how is your food produced? Also decided by greed and laziness? Corrupt moral much?

[@blahblah4129]

Integrity is lost on so many people. Really sad :(

[@Arek_R.]

KZbin started to show me all those documentaries on how some foods can be poisonous and my conculsion is that there is almost no food in modern world that is free of more or less dangerous chemicals...

[@BalboaBaggins]

Ever heard of organic food? Also, eat little to no meat, you'll be fine.

[@stefanieberg1569]

Look up urban gardening… grow your own…

[@m.m.4609]

@@BalboaBaggins lol thats garbage... human body and brain NEEDS animal protein and fat. you can order bio meat online, get grass-fed beef at your local butcher .... corn fed is whats killing you. Also, Every vegan I see is deficient in either heme-iron or protein and are missing essential fatty acids,looking weak and sickly.

[@staceystrukel1917]

@@BalboaBaggins the chemicals are in the soil and water! Organic meat is eating vegetables and grass etc...that have chemicals in them. You can't be that stupid. The chemicals are in the water cycle and in rivers, lakes, ponds, the ocean and rain. There is no way to eliminate them from your diet.

[@staceystrukel1917]

@@m.m.4609 isn't grass fed beef allowed alfalfa? Alfalfa is a gmo crop. It's hilarious that people think they can buy they're way away from these chemicals. They are everywhere. Stop believing your safe through your shopping and demand these be removed so the earth can cleanse everything.

[@MatthiasKlees]

I went 100% organic with my food about5 years ago. I am not a wealthy guy in any sense. But if you set a priority its affordable. The reason i am highlighting this is: YOU should not wait for any institution to solve this. They are to slow, to impact YOUR life. You have to take care of this health-risk yourself. Also the more people will join to boycott conventional agricultural products, the lower the price for organic ones will get (its not all about supply, demand generates efficiency) and the the less attractive it will get, for the conventional farming industries, to produce food that poisons its employees and its customers. The less attractive conventional farming will get, the less lobby power will bee allocated, to slow down governmental processes. Pressure on government is good, but without making choices and changes on your shopping list, this will keep going forever

[@aikidomatrix1]

I am Chemical Technician and studied Chemical Eng., and this is my take with chemicals in general: Chemical compounds do NOT go away. They might change when "in contact" (chemical reaction) with other substances, but they do NOT "evaporate" aka disappear. Another field but...Just for reference: Think of plastics (PET) takes around 450 years to decompose.

[@collettemcquaide1662]

My father was a market gardner during WWII. He had Parkinson's . My sister who was born and raised in the same area. She died from early onset breast cancer. I have always believed their exposure to ddt use.

[@bobs182]

I am disabled from DDT and polio, later other insecticides. The US government promoted DDT use and aided in the coverup of how harmful it was to humans.

[@cesarwarrior3723]

Yes

[@Want2cJesus]

@@bobs182 Yes! DDT caused what was labeled polio. My aunt had "polio" and still suffers at 79. Pretty much everything we are told by mainstream "science" so called, media, allopathic Rocerfeller sick care, big pharma are lies and more lies. I quit practicing as an RN over these issues and more. I am a Nutritional Therapist now. I actually see people get better now.

[@bobs182]

@@Want2cJesus The big money for drug companies is keeping people sick and taking more and more pills. Chemical injury has made me drug intolerant so drug companies have nothing to offer me. Drug companies control med schools and the FDA so doctors are afraid to treat patients with anything but chemicals. I have found lots of help on my own with little help from doctors. Keep up the good work.

[@Want2cJesus]

@@bobs182 Amen Sir!!! I retired from nursing over the vaxx issue in 2014. We almost lost our son to vaxx injury at 15 months. It opened our eyes. I couldn't follow doctors orders any longer. I knew without a doubt pharma was killing the patients I took an oath to advocate for.

[@maxbread9473]

crazy that it's called "conventional farming" and that there's a special term (organic farming) for farming, that should be conventional.

[@MrFechty]

...organic farming today is as close as you are going to get to conventional farming before the war.

[@wobblybobengland]

Amen, soil health!

[@ifyousayso2629]

Healthy soil and balanced ecosystem. This pests won't exist if their natural predators are there.

[@RascalEd-hw6yw]

@@ifyousayso2629 Some research even suggests pests are there to eliminate diseased and unhealthy plants

[@BalboaBaggins]

Agree, it's so arrogant that they turned it around for their own benefit.

[@RKOuttathebox]

My neighbor has his lawn sprayed with pesticides by a company through out the summer. He also goes around his four acre lot every month with a large canister of pesticides, spraying any herb he see's in his lawn. He has had Parkinson's now for about 10 years, but keeps spraying. We have tried to hint to him that the herbicides could be causing it, but he keeps doing it. He told us he has to take around 30 prescriptions a day to help with the symptoms. Now more and more info like this video keep coming out, justifying our suspicions. Very sad to see him degrading like he is. He was a very hard worker and a nice man. We just hope his ignorance doesn't effect us and our children.

[@moow950]

Very high chance his pesticides can be found in your garden, your house and in your body

[@RKOuttathebox]

@@moow950 I agree, we hope that being generally up wind from his property will mitigate the effects, but we are otherwise helpless. These chemicals need to be banned in the states, like many other countries. Who cares if your lawn looks like it should be part of a golf course, when you are doing great harm to everything around and on it.

[@premaust9585]

My mom was a teacher and is suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Our lives turned upside down because of this terrible disease. It’s so heartbreaking to see how she suffers. Mom lived in an agricultural area for a very short period of time decades ago. But I always thought there could have a link with depression and Parkinson’s. Or the chalk they used in schools.

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

chalk??? links prove nothing

[@Jdjustsaying]

Monsanto and Merck are loving these marvellous modern progressions.

[@sandsean62]

I have PD and I was diagnosed at 41. I have always lived in a city no farm in sight. no family history. but I use to Smoke(one big chemical stick) I gave up after 25 yrs. I think of all those harsh house cleaning chemicals I've used, sprays to clean oven, bleach n even fly spray.

[@therockpile6734]

Fly spray is a pesticide

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Tobacco is sprayed like all crops.

[@michaelpeterson2024]

The most effective pesticides are taken up by the plant and work from the inside. Then you buy them from your supermarket and eat them.

[@culby276]

I was a 20 year smoker. Tobacco or cigarettes are full of pesticides.

[@anthonygato407]

were you vaccinated as a child? glyphosate has

[@marcelouellet5548]

With two of my brothers We have been farming in Quebec for nearly 45 years with minimal uses of pesticides. The youngest pasted away 3 years ago from melioma cancer, l personally had my bladder and prostate removed and my older brother was diagnose Parkinson 3 years ago. Was unable to find any local epidemiological data on such diseases. Sold the farms.

[@Babu-kr3cr]

Minimal poison isn't good enough. What you think was minimal was probably enough to cause harm.

[@bobsaccamano]

Another factor could also be your proximity to other farms which do heavily use pesticides, as soon as its 'aersolized' theres nothing stopping the wind from moving it onto your property

[@theCosmicQueen]

well, selling doesn't stop it, just changing away from chemicals does. Going to organic and permaculture.

[@OmmerSyssel]

@@theCosmicQueen well drama queen, guess what.. A man can only do so much... How about you entitled ohh so strong women, finally started following your entitlement and started organic farming?

[@skippy6462]

How much spraying on crops that are fed to farmed animals that people eat. Pesticides concentrated into the flesh and bones of animals which you eat.

[@gg_ingy]

Well, not much if you eat cow that eats grass.

[@gg_ingy]

@@PrivarisYT Nah, it's completely healthy to eat animal based, it's what humans have always done, and i cba arguing with some online vegan. You do you.

[@vishavjeetsingh6883]

@@gg_ingy cow doesn't eat just grass

[@telahquemere6100]

many people have gut issues/parasite/ fungal overload due to eating glyphosate fed animals- we in the health world know this and recommend grass fed animals.Yes you are right, the insecticides kill animals if they directly eat grass from the spraying.

[@jinxterx]

@@gg_ingy Jeez, get educated why don't you.

[@johnmooney7213]

My father had Parkinson's Disease which he blamed on his war service (WW2) with the RAAF when he saw active service in the Pacific theatre. His role as an aircraft technician included spraying the field camps with DDT on a regular basis to suppress mosquito and other insect diseases such as malaria, and other strong herbicides to destroy vegetation around the airfields and camps, which were "carved" out of the jungle. He claimed that they were never given any protective clothing or respiratory mask to wear. In the work sheds they were always using Toluene to make glues, paint thinners and clean engine and electrical parts on the planes. My earliest memory of my dad were the hand tremors (1954), with the symptoms becoming increasing worse forcing early retirement in 1968, when he used to occasionally freeze when walking until his death in 1988, when he was finally bedbound and unable to stand, walk or even use his hands and arms. In spite of all this he remained lucid and could still understand, even though he could not talk as the Parkinson's Disease had affected his speech to this point. Sadly missed.

[@CynthiaWord-iq7in]

Yeah, defoilants viet nam too, agent orange...neurological consequences.

[@johnmooney7213]

@@CynthiaWord-iq7in Yes, Spot on. 245T and 245D. I was unfortunately caught in the spray from a crop duster in 1972 that was using the commercial variant of one of those two, which caused both legs to rash and swell up within hours, as I was wearing shorts. A few years later the first deep cancer was removed from one of my legs, and again on the same site after another 10 years. Both my assistants at the time were affected worse than me and have died many years back. These were cereal crops that were being sprayed. Monsanto have always claimed that these sprays were tested and safe, but there is enough evidence to say otherwise.

[@CynthiaWord-iq7in]

@@johnmooney7213 wow john. My mother was raised in a farm in Georgia and died of Parkinson's in 1981 so I remember well the devastating symptoms, very similar to ALS, excepting the tremors, face frozen, can't speak/swallow ...devastating. But cancer if the leg that late in life, very incriminating, a compelling narrative, thanks.

[@theCosmicQueen]

@@johnmooney7213 such as Roundup no doubt.

[@DontTrustAnybody75]

I'm a gardener and never use or work for people using poison in their yards, I knew a lawyer who represented Round up and he said it's so safe you can drink it lol I'm thinking you first buddy...we as a planet needs to start using common sense and we need to respect and take care of the planet asap....

[@LiquidShivaz]

Thank you so much for this documentary. It’s a important conversation we all need to have. Zembla in the Netherlands did a programme about it too. People have gotten ill here too in relation with agriculture and pesticides.

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@blahblah4129]

Commercial farming though. Regenerative farming is friendly to both eco-system and humans.

[@denradford]

I am very pleased to hear that this is finally being investigated.

[@Fan-zx1lz]

Thank you DW TEAM for exposing this fact. So this made me focus on organic farming at all costs if at any point in life I do farming.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!

[@OmmerSyssel]

Only if you work with food production? Why don't you take responsibility serious, and spend your money on organic products? Too greedy.. Just like the rest of whining hypocrites... 👀🤮

[@Fan-zx1lz]

@@OmmerSyssel I wrote that message with a positive good intention, but you took it negatively that's your Problem Mate.

[@OmmerSyssel]

@@Fan-zx1lz I wrote my opinion with neutral mind, but you got offended 🤷🏼

[@CelticDruidess1]

My uncle developed Parkinson's and had been used as a "marker" for crop spraying. My neighbour in southern Saskatchewan also developed Parkinson's after his dad used him as a marker for crop spraying. In both instances, the chemicals companies indicated the spray was "safe" and in both instances individuals got Parkinson's. I think the cat is out of the bag and the companies responsible need to be held to account and the chemicals phased out.

[@markus98h66]

Wow, here in Norway I was watching a TV show about a danish family living with a dad with this parkinson, he turn worse and worse. He owned a large place, and was doing farming as well

[@carolking6355]

I believe this must be correct. I m nearly 80 and was always healthy until a few years ago when I nearly died. It was sudden. I had become intolerant to wheat , rye and barley.However it was the wheat I first became aware of. I was intolerant to gluten. The year before I knew this I was in hospital with kidney infections. I was told I had a leaky gut.. I had to find out on my iPad what caused that. GLUTEN. since then I have had no problem as before. They changed the genes in wheat to stop it going mouldy. However I have been bedridden ever since. The nerves in my feet and hands were killed. Now I hear they are doing the same to rice. My staple diet. WHO CAN PUT A STOP TO THIS AND CAN THEY REVERSE IT ?

[@Want2cJesus]

Hybridization of dwarf wheat was introduced in the American market in 1975. By the early 2000's celiac disease alone had increased by 600%. My 26 year old aughter has Celiac since middle school. My 21 year old son is vaccine injured, has gluten intolerance, is allergic to potatoes (GMO since 1985). Humans are literally now allergic to the food God created for us because the Luciferians have attacked all of God's creation. These same evil maniacs have heirloom seed banks and eat organic. Larry, RN, Nutritional Therapist

[@LittleKitty22]

I suddenly became bedridden at the beginning of this year. I know I have Celiac Disease and am extremely intolerant to gluten but doctors deny this. I now also have very severe problems with the nerves in my neck and left arm, so severe that I am unable to walk or sit. My upper body is extremely twisted, so much so that my head is turned sideways and backwards, ie when standing my face is pointing towards the ceiling and sideways. It's so severe that I can barely breathe when standing. I lost the use of my left arm and it's so painful that I cannot sleep. I'm totally bedridden. Doctors diagnosed dystonia but refuse an operation that would cure me, so I am condemned to spending the rest of my life like this. I'm in my forties. Most likely I won't have long left now because I can't breathe when standing up, I cannot eat solid food, and my entire body seems to be shutting down.

[@Want2cJesus]

@@LittleKitty22 Look up Uchee Pines in Alabama. They can help even in the worst of cases. I will be praying for you🙏

[@RealJonzuk]

@@LittleKitty22 this is scary to me I have celiac disease and my parents still have old shit that was used to cook gluten and I've been getting sicker and sicker I'm only 21 I use plastic utensils and put parchment over my plants but still my pots get cleaned with sponges that touch whatever even though they don't cook gluten we used to and the stainless pans are all scratched

[@LittleKitty22]

@@Want2cJesus Thank you! - I've had a look at their website, but have to say I'm not comfortable with contacting them. It's a dangerous cult. The health advise they list for various conditions on their website is some Medieval nonsense that isn't going to help anyone.

[@rcgmediavision]

You guys always have the best documentaries!! The further we move away from living as natural as possible the more we complicate life. This is why when the pandemic hit last year in March 2020 I decide to leave Canada and return to my little island of Grenada and do my own organic farming.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! We're glad you like our content. :-)

[@diluknishanthasooriyabanda3558]

Sri Lanka has banned all the agro chemical products to encourage organic farming and balance country's financial difficulties. But lot of people are against the move as they are unaware of the real harm caused by agro chemical. And also, there seemed certain international media channels who blamed the government on this move. So, the world must come together to combat this crisis as a common issue. 🤔🤔🤔

[@mrb2081]

This aged well. Fast forward a year an half of Sri Lanka's starving...

[@aodhfinn]

I travelled by train from one side of Germany to the other ....I counted 5 birds in all that day and saw the monocrop industrial farmed landscape that was a ecobiological desert .

[@CarnotJoule]

While I’m sitting in my in-laws garden and see birds I haven’t seen in 20 years and not just one.

[@aodhfinn]

@@CarnotJoule I bet you could count the insects in the garden as well , all the different butterflies and the bees ..? It isn't just Germany that has shown so little interest in protecting biodiversity, or restoring it ....

[@winesap2]

There are organic alternatives for almost everything and applying tech, old and new, can make a huge difference. But it takes giving up the chemicals and searching for alternatives. My dad has Parkinson’s but he never worked on a farm or lived in the country. But like everyone else he ate pesticide covered produce and other foods all his life.

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

millions ate the same produce w/o bad effects. you have proven absolutely nothing

[@winesap2]

@@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu I never said my dad got Parkinson's because of pesticides. It could be but it would have to proven. And this video is about the increased prevalence of Parkinson's that has coincided with the advent of chemical pesticides, and specifically Parkinson's in the farmers that applied it or people that lived in areas where it was applied extensively. Parkinson's could be from many other chemicals we are constantly pumping into the environment or in some cases it could be genetic. It's proven that lead in gasoline reduced the IQs of an entire generation by several points and also caused an increase in violent crime. Obviously synthetic chemicals in our water and air can have repercussions and this is precisely why we have environmental regulations. I'm sure you wouldn't want to be breathing in asbestos daily. It's also proven that ingesting chemical pesticides in food causes harm in people. DDT was banned because of the effect it had on wildlife and obviously on humans. You saying I've proven nothing means nothing. I don't have to prove anything. Scientists have proven it with research. This entire video is about exactly that.

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

@@winesap2 it is ok with you to make accusations of any kind because you don't have to prove anything? BTW DDT was released to the public ca, 1945 about the same time television was introduced. Maybe TV was the cause of Parkinsons/

[@winesap2]

@@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu You're right. Nothing can ever be proved so nothing anyone says can ever be right or wrong. So lets just weigh everyone's opinion equally. Oh wait, no your opinion is supposed to be weighed heavier than my facts.

[@savage.4.24]

Thats what happened to me. I ate the public produce. And was barefoot in a yard that was always treated. Grandpa had parkinsons my great aunt sied of cancer my grandma had cancer and died of dementia. Im in my 30s with parkinsons. This used to be for "old folks". Something is definitely not right.

[@florinapostoiu]

For two years i've had a business in which part of it was selling many kind of pesticides. I've ended that business in 2016-2017. Just in two years of being among those kind of products, without using them at all, i've remained with some permanent small health issues - different inexplicable and strange allergies and sensibilities that did not existed before. One of my employee had a child that died before being born, supposedly because she worked for many years just handling this kind of products.

[@worldchangingvideos6253]

Super scary!

[@florinapostoiu]

@Heloise O'Byrne It's useless - everyone is blinded by money, most without even being able to realize.

[@wendyscott8425]

@@florinapostoiu More like they're blinded by brainwashing. Regenerative farmers make more money than conventional ones because they don't have the expenses of chemicals and the farm equipment they need to spray them on their fields. They also can charge more for their products since they're safer and more delicious than chemically produced foods.

[@sherriianiro747]

I commend you for ending the business before any more damage was done. There is so much ignorance out there regarding pesticides.

[@jessed6379]

@@worldchangingvideos6253 women have babys that die all the time though

[@tiffany-pa2345]

Best documentary channel on KZbin without a doubts. I am very honoured to subscribe and watch' free documentations. Kudos to the DW Team.

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@miskaknapek]

Many thanks for the investigation DW! I have a lot of nerve/allergy/energy production problems with harder cleaning chemicals, and synethetic pesticides used in peoples' gardens. I am not surprised that pesticides can cause nerve disorders like Parkinsons. Thanks again!

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and sharing your experience!

[@miskaknapek]

@@DWDocumentary thanks again for brilliant work. Making the heart unhealthy is a pretty terrible idea. And western farming companies have already used far heavier pesticides in faraway lands that we don't see. There's got to be a better way.

[@kingpetra6886]

I have had two relatives who have had Parkinson's . One was a blood relative, one was an in law. They both lived in areas where fruits and vegatibles were grown on a large scale. Neither one worked in the fields themselves or in the businesses that grew these foods. There was no previous history of Parkinson's in either family. And surprise, surprise this was not in California. I have long suspected that either insecticides or herbicides were the underlying cause of their disease.

[@---zg7ex]

Thank you DW TV, this is the best information we have been waiting for years. My grandma suffered this disease 15 years ago, and I now understand what could be the biggest risk factors to cause this. She even asked me to find out why is happening to her when i was a child. I vividly remember that! Industrialization is destroying human physiology.

[@ptinio2]

Probably, but that study will be suppressed as the pesticide industry will lobby to get it thrown out. Too much $$$ to be made in the pesticide business

[@sertaobuda]

Once, I met a tomato farmer in Brazil. I asked him if he has eaten them. So, he told me: "never, I use to eat organic tomato!".

[@zovalentine7305]

Ditto for my Spanish coworker concerning bananas

[@creuzasimionatto1838]

Brazil uses more pesticides than any other country, as per press. Current government allows products banned in European countries. Big shame! Many of us only buy organic products and limit meat and milk.

[@AntonioScarpelliniCa]

@@creuzasimionatto1838 Few countries around the world has pests as much as Brazil. We don't have a harsh winter, no snow season. Europe and the US can't be mirror to our problems.

[@creuzasimionatto1838]

@@AntonioScarpelliniCa Indeed, Brasil's problems are much, much worse, I am sorry to say.

[@jamesmedina2062]

@@AntonioScarpelliniCa Brazil needs to go back to its traditions before Europeans migrated there because biology develops properly over many hundreds of years

[@arilebon]

The public broadcaster in my country would not be able to produce investigative shows like these where larger corporation could be implicated. Germany is one of the last countries that has relatively free media that can initiate investigative content (although I'm sure you still have limitations I'm not aware from far away).

[@BulletDiscipline]

my grandmother died from this disease & cancer before i was born it amazes me to see how many lives the disease has affected

[@KittenBowl1]

DW, great job at exposing and highlighting the shortcomings of German agricultural program comparing to French counterpart. I recall 20 years ago being told by organic farmers in Canada that grapes are the most pesticide laden food source on earth as they use so much of pesticides, and I was advised not to use grape seed oil, and even stay away from drinking regular wine. Good thing that I followed their advice as some old cooking shows were recommending grape seed oil then... It's surprising to witness someone in France vividly affected by the pesticides use of those grapes. Thankfully now France is producing some organic wine and I drink those when I want to enjoy wine. And to this day I always opt for not using grape seed oil but some locally produced great quality oil and I even make my own ghee. Now that I live in Japan, I know there is no rampant Parkinson's disease I am aware of, unlike the EU. My grandma had her own vegetable gardens and my maternal side great aunts are all farmers. None had Parkinson's disease. It was so heartbreaking to see the man in care facility at 68...around the same age with my dad. Hope the situation improves in Germany and EU collectively stop producing all these pesticides laden vegetables and wine.

[@the.communist]

Every time i eat grapes i get an itchy throat. Make of that what you will.

[@OmmerSyssel]

Pretty ridiculous caring about the environment by focusing on two irrelevant luxury products... Organic food is actually long available and produced all over EU, and Japan! But guess what, no one is producing, unless customers are buying! 🍻

[@chrisarfath3382]

Thank you 🙏🏻 d.w for making us be more informed to make right choices and changes

[@srinew27]

Sharing our Vega tables and fruits with insects is natural way of growing plants and trees

[@D-A-A-]

My thoughts exactly they say its the right way but even in the 1900s people weren't using shit like this for food

[@tlockerk]

It is an ideal,and managable in a kichen garden. It is harder to do when you are growing monoculture on inherited farm of hundreds of acres. Then it's a business.

[@davidhoogendyke2774]

But it isn;t profitable...greed over-rules everything. People will never start to grow their own food in the West when they can buy it.

[@tsunamis82]

I plant a few extra for the pests, but am having trouble getting them to stay on their plants lol. The hens are a great help.

[@cinmai978]

@@davidhoogendyke2774 overpopulation is causing this maybe?

[@theancientsancients1769]

Very good independent documentary by DW! Journalism should be like this! I hope more things like this is covered , so that people consume less of fringe people that supply this kind of news.

[@mobspeak]

I'm glad that farmer is careful with the use of pesticides, it's not like it rains and the chemicals go into the ground water at all? How does that well water taste aye?

[@jachs7279]

My mother was diagnosed with a type of Parkinson’s in ~2004 and died totally paralyzed in 2016, aged 83. She was a chain smoker for years, stopping in the 80’s and wonder if tobacco which was surely heavily sprayed with chemicals had something to do with it. That is a link that perhaps existed…

[@BrianSmith-gp9xr]

My father in law from Mexico would cook lamb in a barrel that once contained the most toxic chemicals . He had parkensens

[@binzsta86]

Why would he do that?

[@jon_s]

Can we talk about the maker of these toxic chemicals? Bayer

[@kespo5358]

And Monsanto that's been caught altering the data they provide to the public.

[@jon_s]

@@kespo5358 Bayer owns Monsanto

[@kespo5358]

@@jon_s Well, there ya go.

[@Jthe5th]

You only know of Bayer because of the media having something with Bayer particularly, there are many other big companies there that produce agricultural chemicals that are not known to a person that has little contact with agriculture.

[@Jthe5th]

@@kespo5358 Only since 2018 it is with Bayer.

[@telahquemere6100]

yes- my mother and brother have it- and we grew up in VA as farmers, my father also dead from cancer. my brother is only 42. Its extremely sad- I pray that people wake up to this.

[@telahquemere6100]

@Heloise O'Byrne buy organic- you will have less but it will never be perfect- besides they spray nano anyway- so there is no true organic anymore- its actually more about the soil and how regenerative it is and how it affects the eco system around, including humans.

[@telahquemere6100]

@Heloise O'Byrne its not about limiting- organic makes more diversity and you eat seasonally- that is the traditional way of our ancestors. I don't miss anything and I eat what is in season and local would be more preferrable- think about all the fossil fuel that people use to truck around not local things.

[@telahquemere6100]

GMO eating makes less diversity and is more limiting- those are facts in functional nutrition- I wouldn't be getting all my health info in places like this- I just chimed in because its obvious it causes neuro degenerative. disease.

[@minoozolala]

Tibetan medicine can slow the progress of PD. My father took it, along with his Sinemet, for 17 years, and the PD barely progressed.

[@OmmerSyssel]

@@telahquemere6100 of course there is true organic products available. Most of EU has strict control and high moral in organic production. The usual suspect like Italy should wake your awareness ...

[@RanbirSingh-dh4ux]

The question is whether these chemical are accumulating in the body (accumulating poisons) so after a certain time they reach the toxicity threshold ,when their effects become visible, the damage to the body is irreversible.

[@tomedward8652]

My mother worked as a care worker in Cheshire England. Much of Cheshire is farming community. All of the elderly farmers she went to help had Parkinson's or Dementia - all of their families blamed the pesticides they used.

[@noahsathletics]

People like the cheap and fast produce at grocery stores. As long as they (us) buy then they (farmers) need to use chemicals to mass produce.

[@rajs7876]

You can use safer ways to produce higher yields using hydroponics

[@clikerzbot]

Fearless DW appreciate your doc..my country has lots of this situation where people manually apply chemicals in banana plantations...if you could just picture out the magnitude. Very eye opening.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment, Ronan.

[@Babu-kr3cr]

Organic bananas aren't much more expensive and worth it for your own health and that of the workers.

[@WalkinBeauty278]

Progess.....seems to always have a problem in its wake...and profit requires the problem be hidden or ignored

[@scottjohnson6173]

This is what my Dad died with, he had for the last 20 or years of his life. He lived on a small farm in southern New Hampshire then after farming life the farm was turned into a junk yard of gas cars prior to that he was in the military as a pilot taking in diesel fumes which I think had a hand in it also there was an Apple Orchid not far from the farm on certain days you could smell a light mist of spray I’m sure all contributed to his Parkinson’s on his last 3 years of life in a nursing home where there was more abuse Riga mortis set in he was as stiff as a board, couldn’t move he suffered a lot of pain! I miss my Dad every millisecond of the day! When he died the pathologist took his brain and sent it to the University of Miami to be analyzed, and he did pass from Parkinson’s.

[@wallybingbang4350]

“Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons ?” Jane Goodall

[@eidrith493]

A "natural" and effective weed killer sold in large stores as Weed-Ex is made by mixing white vinegar and swimming pool salt with a little detergent for penetration. Paint it on stumps and no regrowth.For insects I use Pyrethum extract made from a flower.

[@earthstick]

I still remember when I was a kid, someone used to fly a crop sprayer over the houses during the summer and spray us while we were in the garden.

[@margueritedelaharpe3209]

I knew of a South African pilot crop sprayer who got Alzheimer's so badly he would wonder off and get lost.

[@earthstick]

@@margueritedelaharpe3209 Well I don't think they were lost. I grew up in between a cold war US airbase and a Royal Airforce Air base. My next door neighbours worked at the US airbase. I think the crop sprayer was related on one of those two bases.

[@srinew27]

Growing plant in nature way is always good thing, that is sharing our vegetable and fruit with insects is the natural way of growing plants and trees.

[@larsonlevius1753]

Well tell that to the deadly parasites

[@KITTIKAT]

@@larsonlevius1753 i would rather use more expensive well documented and researched forms of killing vicious parasites than cheap poison that hurts humans. we are more deadly to ourselves than deadly parasites are to humans.

[@rockeerockey6941]

Man is his own worst enemy

[@larsonlevius1753]

@@KITTIKAT but then prices for consumers will increase not only that the farmers especially when they want quantity over quality thats why most people avoid local a bio markets and prefere cheaper stuffs

[@wobblybobengland]

Look at the NPK cycle. Vegetable production is all about soil health and abundance. As soon as man interferes with the balance in nature then we get problems. Crop pests are controlled by pest predators but because of man's greed, and his greed for eating animals and their products, he needs to 'maximise yields' for 'economic profit', it's a bloody fantasy that man creates here, the earth is in such a mess because of bloody BBQs.

[@TRINITY-ks6nw]

YES I have cared for many chemist of the food industry Each had major neurological issues It happens frequently enough that healthcare workers have connected the DOTS

[@jerrychen6610]

Thank DW for exploring this subject.

[@agoogleuseranonymous2658]

And all these fruits and vegetables that get sprayed, then we eat them ... this cannot be good too.

[@macalinadan9028]

Dw produces the best documentaries

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and for your support, @Macalin Adan. :-)

[@adic9091]

DW as well as PBS make top notch documentaries. I would add that National Geographic TV is also up there.

[@robem8340]

No arte:re does

[@sirius007]

Humans: the species that have declared war on themselves...

[@pinschrunner]

@•••ʀᴇᴀᴅʏ for L-!-V-E -𝐒-𝐄. the chemtrails and HAARP are murdering the bees and ruining their ability to use their own radar energy to return to their gives. Native gee is devastating. Wifi deadly. Chemtrails and death towers. Monica and other pesticides.

[@sherriianiro747]

A friend of mine is a chemical engineer & 20 years ago she said these chemicals attack the central nervous system , Parkinsons, ALS, even MS and infertility. She said if a tree root can get into your water line what do you think also gets in there? That was my wake up call!

[@russ838]

I'll just add this to the pile of terrifying things to think about at bedtime, next to climate change, ecosystem collapse, microplastic pollution, the various natural catastrophes we're overdue for, all that good stuff

[@jcools310]

It’s time to bring Bayer to justice

[@abdullakurdi8303]

Please do more DC on Parkinson’s disease, so that it will be known better to the world how bad it is and somebody find a cure. My father is 62 and he has it 😢 😔 😞. My heart hurts every time i see his tremor hands ...

[@dannmarceau]

I really enjoy your informative non-biased Documentaries; I wish more people saw them.

[@thedude5599]

Anything that kills BUGS will eventually kill you, pretty simple.

[@janicefisk6197]

And yet how many people have pest control monthly or quarterly?? My husband and I stopped pest control out of curiosity for our health. We didn't have any type of insect for 5 YEARS!! Glad we had the brains to stop it, but what did it do to us??

[@wordonwheelsaustralia8160]

Pesticides go on the plants and soil - absorbed by the plant - into the harvested crops - into the food people eat - into the human food chain - all pesticides eventually enter into the human body.