http://patch.com/california/santacruz/reducing-pesticide-exposure-santa-cruz-day-care-homes





    The topic of pesticide usage has been a long ongoing battle, in which people who are concerned for the environment, animals, and humans fight against big corporations. In reality, pesticides have been something that humans have been around daily since around WWII, and have grown numb to the word itself. Regardless, pesticides are still being tested today, and with a lot more knowledge on them, we have found that there are potential negative effects on our environment and the people and animals that inhabit it.
    Thankfully, there are still people actively taking a stand to stop the use of pesticides in harmful areas to humans and other creatures. In Santa Cruz, California, organizations are being granted as much as 400,000 dollars each to research and find ways to control pests in environments containing large amounts of children, homes, and other heavily populated places, without the use of pesticides to help reduce the risk of exposure on the people.
    This large amount of money has already been allotted to certain plans that are underway in California to help stop the use of harmful pesticides such as educating people who live in apartment complex's in a close proximity to one another can eliminate any pest problems without the use of any harmful chemicals. I believe that this is a great thing that the state of California is doing, and that each and every other U.S state should follow in its foot steps.