How do pesticides become accumulated along the food chain?

When pesticides are sprayed into stagnent pools of water, either by accident or on purpose, small larvae eat the pesticide. Then it gradually travels up the food chain by predators eating their prey. This was the reason why DDT was banned, when it reached the bald eagles through the food chain, it affected their eggs by making them soft. Thus, the eggs were smashed when they were attempted to be incubbated by their parents.

http://video.answers.com/using-organic-pesticides-377412310

Do you think this is true? False?
Do you think about pesticides when buying food?
Are you into organic food?
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11.03.2010

Richard Heinberg: The Oil Peak

The problem of energies is growing

Richard Heinberg is an American journalist and educator who has written extensively on ecological issues, including the problems with Oil. He is the author of nine books, including The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse, and Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines.

Take a look at this interview and to the next part of this same interview, and then, tell me,
are we like yeasts? Shall we end up destroying ourselves, exactly as these micro-organisms do?

Is this related to intelligence? Are we on time to act smartly enough? Let's hope so!!!