Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues — Jim Hightower 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
Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory… — Michael Pollan 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
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
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
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides.… — Alice Waters 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
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
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan 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
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
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
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
“I was struck by the fact that for Joel abjuring agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is not so much a goal of his farming,… — Michael Pollan 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents… — Dalton McGuinty Copy Share Image
Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven… — Charles Benbrook Copy Share Image
“There is rising concern about pesticides, used on plants for food, causing endocrine disruption, meaning that the residual pesticides appear to be… — Daniel G. Amen Copy Share Image
The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Healthy, sustainable food production methods give us food that is nutritionally better and with fewer pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is… — Carol Browner Copy Share Image
As we've focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what's being put onto… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Be sure to buy organic versions of the 'dirty dozen:' the fruits and vegetables that, when grown conventionally, are loaded with pesticides… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter,… — Constance Marie Copy Share Image
