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“We have some very suggestive evidence that the use of pesticides and herbicides affects our mental function and brain physiology, including increasing the incidence of Parkinson’s disease up to seven times in those most heavily exposed to them. This is not exactly a surprise when we realize that pesticides are designed to be neurotoxic to the pests.”

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Book:Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children

Source: Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children

“Watching what you eat ought to include knowing what what you eat ate.”

Toxic Fitness Diet Dieting Pesticides Toxins Organic Herbicides Gmo Genetically Modified Organism

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.”

Knows Said States Use United United States Economy Opposites Farmers Herbicides

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.”

Needs Feels Should Deserve Privilege Good Food Elitist Pesticides Herbicides

Author:Alice Waters

“One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and its satellites-everywhere that the command economy operated, with its callous disregard for anything but narrow-focused abstract principle-could be forgiven for thinking that the Apocalypse was no longer imminent but in full cry. There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse.”

Source: Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

“The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial growth, massive urban concentrations and vastly increased energy needs. Industrial waste, the burning of fossil fuels, unrestricted deforestation, the use of certain types of herbicides, coolants and propellants: all of these are known to harm the atmosphere and environment.”

“Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”

“Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food should be local, organic rather than grown with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides.”

Ifs Should Earth Locals Chemicals Reverence Entity Organisms Living Organisms Fertilizer Pesticides Herbicides

Author:Satish Kumar

“The World Health Organization recently concluded that glyphosate, the main ingredient in the most-used herbicide on GMOs, is "possibly carcinogenic to humans." What's even scarier is that more than 3,200 elementary schools are within 1,000 feet of genetically modified corn or soybean fields. Drift is a very real thing in agricultural communities, so the proximity of these toxic substances to children is terrifying.”

“At this moment, glyphosate is the biggest threat. And because of its overuse, we are seeing the emergence of superweeds, which have grown resistant to glyphosate. This has led to biotech corporations developing even more toxic herbicides, including 2,4-D, one of the main components of Agent Orange.”

Moments Seeing Threat Including Agents Developing Corporations Toxic Orange Components Emergence Biotech Herbicides Agent Orange

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and peel our vegetables now - and with good reason, as we can't be sure our soil is not contaminated with pesticides and herbicides.”

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Author:Sharon Gannon

“Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.”

Has Beens Animal Environment Destruction Plant Harm Feds Farms Pollution Our Environment Saturated Pesticides Genetically Modified Herbicides

Author:Sharon Gannon

“GMO herbicide-tolerant crops have led to a 527 million pound increase in herbicide use in the U.S. between 1996 and 2011.”

Use Millions Increase Pounds Crops Gmos Herbicides

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.”

Firsts Made Bigs Machines Made It Fuel Chemicals Mechanism Agriculture Farming Fertilizer Pesticides Herbicides

Author:David R. Brower

“If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.”

Ifs Mean Philosophy Political Praying Economics Weed Genes Corn Herbicides

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers.”

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Author:Joe Nichols

“Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.”

Needs Weed Multiple Herbicides

Author:Nina Fedoroff