Books Quote by Jane Mayer

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

We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers…

— Cesar Chavez

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

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

— John Catsimatidis

“Much of my early career was spent working with two of the most toxic chemicals ever discovered, dioxin and aflatoxin. I initially worked at…

— T. Colin Campbell

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill…

— Carl Safina

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

— Judith D. Schwartz

“Even in the wake of Rachel Carson's best-selling Silent Spring, Americans in 1963 spent nearly as much money fighting crabgrass with chemical weed controls…

— Ted Steinberg

The euphemistically named CropLife America speaks for the pesticide industry.

— Michael Pollan

I think that DDT holds a lot of promise. It hasn't been banned everywhere - obviously it has in the U.S. In fact, about…

— Laura Harrington

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

— Cesar Chavez

I'm glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.

— Dolores Huerta