Farm Quote by Michael Pollan

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

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

— Cesar Chavez

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to…

— Jeremy Rifkin

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

— John Catsimatidis

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

— Chuck Norris

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

Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all…

— Sharon Gannon

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

“Doesn't the Federal Farm bill help out all these poor farmers? No. It used to, but ever since its inception just after the Depression,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out…

— David R. Brower

“I was struck by the fact that for Joel abjuring agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is not so much a goal of his farming, as it…

— 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