Pesticides and Cancer
Parakeet - Budgie - Keets

Take pesticides very seriously - not only for your keets, but for yourself. I would NEVER walk into a house that had been exterminated only a few hours ago.

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"Dozens of studies have now shown that several classes of pesticides are associated with brain cancers and leukemias in children"

"The risk of Wilms' tumor and lymphoma was elevated with professional extermination use during childhood and brain cancer was elevated with termite extermination during pregnancy"

"A recent study of pesticides and childhood brain cancers has revealed a strong relationship between brain cancers and compounds used to kill fleas and ticks"

Remember, these studies are done with HUMAN BEINGS who have large bodies. Little tiny keets only need a tiny speck of poison in their system to have disastrous results. Cancer is already a prime killer of parakeets in their middle age. Maybe the reason is that the humans that "care" for these keets subject them to pesticides - either in the home or on the lawn around the home. The poor little keets get a few specks of that poison in their system, and the tumor begins.

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