Pesticides, EEEWWWW, YUCKY STUFF!

Pesticides have caused far more harm than good. Sometimes the very people using the pesticides are the victims. Many pesticides kill all bugs, even the good ones. This can create a true problem for everyone. When we kill off important bugs, we as a human race become more reliant on the very poison we should have never used. As for the laborers working these fields, well that's a whole different blog.

Enterprise Alabama has a deep history and respect for bugs. If fact in the very center of the town of Enterprise is a statue of a lady holding up a Bull Weevil beetle. Why may you ask why a town is SO proud of their bug? Well it was not always this way, in fact the Bull Weevil almost scared the whole town away. You see Enterprise used to be a typical southern cotton town. Very reliant on their cotton crops. However, this all changed when the Bull Weevil showed up. The Bull Weevil destroyed the Cotton Crop. The town thought they were doomed. They never expected that things were going to change for the better, because of this bug disaster. In modern days we would have easily solved the problem with some killer chemical and, business as usual. Not so easy in the olden days. The people of Enterprise did, however, find out that peanuts were doing swell! The peanuts did so swell, that they were making more money than the cotton ever did.

So there you have it. A little know fact.

Here is another little known fact:

It takes 1/3 lb. of pesticides and fertilizers to produce enough cotton to make just one t-shirt.