Agriculture Quote by Cesar Chavez

I always knew pesticides affected farmworkers. That's why I always tell people, "eat organic." Not just because it's better for you but because you…

— Eva Longoria

Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.

— Cesar Chavez

We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.

— John Catsimatidis

Basically, farm chemicals are labor-saving devices, and farmers who don't use them - weed killers especially - have to work harder or hire more…

— Michael Pollan

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we…

— Woody Harrelson

It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields.

— Chuck Norris

The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place…

— Wes Jackson

A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating…

— Rachel Carson

My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used.

— George Deukmejian

Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves…

— Dalton McGuinty

“Since we cannot solve the health injuries linked to industrial agriculture with the same mindset that created them, we have to view food and…

— Deborah Kesten

The widespread use of pesticides in the French countryside, and its worrying effects on nature and the environment, had troubled me for years.

— Carol Drinkwater