World pesticide use exceeded 5.0 billion lbs in both 2000 and 2001 (total cost, $64.5 billion) with the United States accounting for 1.2 billion lbs per year at an annual cost of $11 billion. While the totals are staggering, so too is the infinitesimal amount of those five billion pounds a year that actually make it to the target pest - less than 0.1 percent. No one has accounted for where the other 99.9 percent ends up, and it is known these compounds can travel thousands of miles around the globe. Both the amount of pesticide residue and foodstuff and the amount released into the atmosphere are factors that should be considered when individuals purchase organically raised food.

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