Fitness Quote by M. S. Swaminathan

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

— Chuck Norris

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

— John Catsimatidis

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

— Cesar Chavez

Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the…

— Joe Nichols

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

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

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

— Michael Pollan

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

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

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

— Aldo Leopold