Herbicides Quotes

15 quotes from 11 authors

If you’ve ever wondered why people argue about weed‑killing chemicals, this set offers a compact look at the debate. From farmers to environmentalists, each line adds a piece to the larger conversation about land, health, and policy.

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If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your…

Jeremy Rifkin

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GMO herbicide-tolerant crops have led to a 527 million pound increase in herbicide use in the U.S. between 1996 and 2011.

Zoe Lister-Jones

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Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

Nina Fedoroff

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I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they…

Jeremy Rifkin

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I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides.…

Alice Waters

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Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to…

Joe Nichols

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Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food…

Satish Kumar

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Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically…

Sharon Gannon

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At this moment, glyphosate is the biggest threat. And because of its overuse, we are seeing the emergence of superweeds, which have…

Zoe Lister-Jones

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If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and…

Sharon Gannon

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“Here in the United States, we’re even kept in the dark as to whether the food we buy contains genetically modified substances,…

Judith D. Schwartz

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The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial…

Pope John Paul II

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The World Health Organization recently concluded that glyphosate, the main ingredient in the most-used herbicide on GMOs, is "possibly carcinogenic to humans."…

Zoe Lister-Jones

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Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and…

Alvin Toffler

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One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former…

Marq de Villiers

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