“What if the mosquitos are converting the pesticide to a weak form of pyrethrums, a poison to people?” — James Frazee Copy Share Image
In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a… — Missy Peregrym Copy Share Image
I'm glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention. — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
I'm on the road a lot, but I eat healthy whenever I can with foods that don't contain pesticides. — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
“Pesticides poison the main brain happy hormone or neurotransmitter, acetyl choline.” — Sherry Rogers M.D Copy Share Image
Training of farmers in integrated pest management is exceedingly important to protect them during the use of pesticides. — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields. — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers. — John Catsimatidis Copy Share Image
“The cultural fear of “bugs” we have as a society, without understanding what they do or how vital they are to the… — Joey Santore Copy Share Image
First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which… — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
I always knew pesticides affected farmworkers. That's why I always tell people, "eat organic." Not just because it's better for you but… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
Most pesticides lose their efficacy after a few years, because of pest resistance to pesticides. This is why companies go on changing… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on… — George Deukmejian Copy Share Image
Pharmaceuticals are regulated. Pesticides are, as well as food, save the occasional salmonella outbreak. But chemicals and their witch's brew of ingredients… — Suzy Shuster Copy Share Image
One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals… — Erik P. Eckholm Copy Share Image
The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
“An apple a day might have kept the doctor away prior to the industrialization of food growing and preparation. But, according to… — Michelle Schoffro Cook Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
“So should we ban or restrict synthetic chemicals until we have a full understanding of their effects? This attractively simple idea is… — Daniel Gardner Copy Share Image
“THE ORGANIC FOODS MYTH A few decades ago, a woman tried to sue a butter company that had printed the word 'LITE'… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Besides, the sense of safety offered by bottled water is a mirage. It turns out that breathing, not drinking, constitutes our main… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
“DISTURBED BY THE INDISCRIMINATE USE of synthetic chemical pesticides after the Second World War, aquatic biologist Rachel Carson reluctantly turned her focus… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier Copy Share Image
And of course the Green Party wants to remove carcinogens from our food, our cosmetics, our backyard pesticides. — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to… — George Deukmejian Copy Share Image
I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I… — Suzanne Whang Copy Share Image
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I love judging food by its smell and feel and taste. The healthiest tomato isn't always the perfect one that's been covered… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
