Pesticides

Nearly $2.6bn worth of pesticides are sprayed on cotton fields each year.

Effects.

• Birth Defects
• 20,000-40,000 deaths annually
• Childhood Brain Cancers
• Autism
• ADHD
• Kills Animals

This raises numerous questions. Why spend £2.6bn a year and kill/affect so many people? Why isn't it banned? Why doesn't this get into the media but the X Factor does? 

Personally i believe those figures and facts to be shocking but yet i still do buy clothes from retailers that definitely support the use of pesticides.

How do we prevent these things from happening? Is there an alternative solution?