Dr. Robert Whitfield warns that a pesticide banned from food crops and classified as a carcinogen in Europe is still sprayed on U.S. golf courses in massive quantities. The chemical damages the nervous system and neural development, yet it's the most frequently used pesticide on golf course turf despite being prohibited on apples, corn, and tomatoes.
It is so toxic to the human nervous system, so damaging to neural development that it has been banned from use on food crops. You cannot legally spray it on an apple. You cannot spray it on corn. You cannot use it on tomatoes. But it is still legally applied in massive quantities to golf courses across the United States. Once again, you can't spray that on food. It's been banned in Europe. It is completely banned. The European regulators looked at the data and classified it as a known carcinogen. Here in America, that compound is the number one most applied chemical on our golf courses. So these aren't fringe chemicals used by a few golf courses. These are the standard Operating Procedures for Golf Course Turf Maintenance. And the general assumption is that because you aren't eating the grass, you're perfectly safe. So once again, it takes those chemicals in massive amounts to protect the turf, the grass that you play on, and the assumption is basically false. It is a dangerous misunderstanding of human physiology.
