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Aggressive' firms peddling myth pesticides are needed to feed world condemned by UN

Authors blame corporations for 'systematic denial' and 'aggressive, unethical marketing tactics'

The idea that pesticides are necessary to feed the world’s fast-growing population is “inaccurate and misleading”, a UN report has warned.

The document, which is expected to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council this week, strongly denounced the “aggressive promotion” of pesticides by the industry as experts found the chemicals had “catastrophic impacts on the environment, human health and society as a whole”.

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