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“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.”

Ifs Reason Water Air Conscious Soil Vegetables Dirt Adequate Vitamins Bacteria Pesticides Herbicides

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

“Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to car pollution to nuclear radiation to most municipal tap waters.”

World Water Car Including Nuclear Our World Chemicals Toxic Radiation Pollution Organisms Viruses Bacteria Pesticides Calcium Tap Water Toxic Chemicals

Author:David Wolfe

“As we've focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what's being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.”

People Issues Greater Awareness Focused Consumers Labeling Pesticides

Author:Dolores Huerta

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

People Stills Facts Attention Glad Pesticides

Author:Dolores Huerta

“On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that's what's begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when - starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease.”

“Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.”

Should Long Has Beens Dying Should Have Bees Long Ago Scandal Should Have Been Banned Pesticides

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.”

Said Strong Millions Losing Concerned Terrorism More Time Bees Hives Pesticides

Author:Patti Smith

“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

“When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?”

Knows Faces Names Process Sells Active Selling Contact Consumers Buying Farmers Coming Out Mexico Pesticides

Author:Jerry Brown

“There will be guards,” Bast said. “And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods.” “Magicians can do that?” I asked. I imagined a big can of pesticide labeled God-Away.”

Said Bigs House Can Do Traps Magician Alarms Charmed Pesticides

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“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 and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.”

Ifs Knows Eating Concern Drinking Bones Chemicals Marrow Pesticides Silent Spring Eating And Drinking

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.”

Firsts Has Beens Water Air Economic Cost Rivers Ecology Incentives Manufacturing Pesticides Agribusiness

Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.”

Stills Age Order Dark Darkness Environment Society Fields Down And Environmental Planes Commerce Insects Dark Ages Predator Spray Pesticides

Author:Paul Hawken

“Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.”

Animal Food Meat Vegetarian Vegan Corpses Vegetarianism Pesticides Antibiotics Animal Food

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.”

People Giving Church Poor Environment Share Moon Disease Environmental Hunger Corruption Excited Oil Damn Pollution Rockets Leaks Devastation Affluent Pesticides Smog

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues”

Nature Environment Billions Fairness Agriculture Natural Environment Pesticides Organic Agriculture

Author:Jim Hightower

“Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.”

Ifs Long Process Levels Environment Serious Lows Consequence Driven Exposure Long Life Infancy Hormones Developmental Low Level Pesticides Serious Life

Author:Charles Benbrook

“The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.”

Humans Has Beens Use Animal Approach Standards Percent Miracle Twenties Chemicals Vegetables Approved Pumps Pesticides Epa Dosage

Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide - all can be traced easily to too many people.”

People Littles Water Too Much Car Plant Treatment Factories Carbon Inadequate Carbon Dioxide Pesticides Multiplying Sewage

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast food industry possible, along with feedlot agriculture, pharmaceuticals on the farm, pesticides and regulatory forbearance. All these things are part of the answer to the question: Why is that crap so cheap? Our food is dishonestly priced. One of the ways in which it's dishonestly priced is the fact that people are not paid a living wage to process it, to serve it, to grow it, to slaughter it.”

“Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.”

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Author:Jared Diamond

“One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals for food/profit/using toxic chemicals such as pesticides/industrial wastes, will accelerate the extinction of plants/animals and the result will be a more hostile environment for man.”

“First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.”

Firsts Use Law Method Paradox Bugs Pesticides

Author:Boris Beizer

“Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.”

“We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe - to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare.”

“When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.”

Stills Age Form Order Water Dark Fields Balance Resources Down And Planes Soil Commerce Sheets Insects Wildlife Dark Ages Predator Spray Pesticides Balance Sheets Insecticides

Author:Paul Hawken

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