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- The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is…
- Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast…
- When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery…
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- Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot
- 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
- 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
- The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not… — Gloria Steinem
- When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are… — Paul Hawken
- Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk
- 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
- Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues — Jim Hightower
- 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
- The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan
- The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by… — Barbara Kingsolver
- 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