Pesticide Health Risks

Pesticides are everywhere in conventional farming — but the risks they carry are far greater than most people realize.
Behind the words "regulated" and "approved" are chemicals designed to kill living organisms — and when you consume them, they don't simply disappear inside your body.

Pesticide exposure, even at "low levels," can trigger two major types of toxicity:
Acute toxicity and chronic toxicity.

Acute toxicity happens when someone is exposed to a large amount of pesticide at once — leading to immediate symptoms like nausea, dizziness, vomiting, headaches, breathing problems, and even seizures. Farm workers, for example, are often the first victims of acute pesticide poisoning. But residues on produce can still create mini-acute responses in sensitive individuals — especially young children, pregnant women, and the elderly.

More dangerous, however, is chronic toxicity — the slow, silent build-up of chemicals in the body over time.
Because many pesticides are fat-soluble, they embed themselves into the body's fatty tissues, organs, and even bone marrow. Over months and years, these chemicals can:

 

Chronic pesticide exposure has been directly linked to serious long-term diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, fertility problems, respiratory disorders, autoimmune diseases, birth defects, and multiple types of cancer.

Even worse, the damage doesn’t always stop with one generation.
Studies in the emerging field of epigenetics show that chemical exposures — including pesticides — can cause genetic changes that are passed down to future generations. This means that the pesticides you eat today could impact the health and resilience of your children and grandchildren, altering gene expression and making them more vulnerable to disease.

Many of the pesticides still found in U.S. produce today — such as glyphosate, chlorpyrifos, and neonicotinoids — are either banned in other countries or under heavy scientific scrutiny for these exact reasons.
And yet, they continue to coat everyday fruits and vegetables sold in stores across America.

Washing your produce only removes surface residue — not the chemicals absorbed into the plant tissue during growth.
The only way to truly protect yourself is to choose local, clean, chemical-free food from sources you trust.

At Produce Now, we believe your food shouldn’t come with a warning label.
It should come with life, strength, and safety — the way nature intended.

You deserve better than invisible poisons.
You deserve clean, real food — grown right.