While the use of pesticides has resulted in a wide range of benefits to control weeds, insects and other pests, including increased food production and reduction of insect-borne disease, their use also raises questions about possible effects on the enviro...
Robert Hirsch
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 pesticid...
Jerry Brown
This is the latest phase in the city`s campaign to encourage natural lawn and garden care practices. As we enforce the bylaw, our inspectors will be firm but fair in promoting compliance and reducing the use of pesticides.
Anthony Romero
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.
Ali Aoun
I`m not so thrilled about the factory farming movement in our country and also pesticides - you don`t want to cut off your nose to spite your face.
Daryl Hannah
Children are being exposed to large amounts of pesticides daily throughout their diet -- cumulatively, over the first 5, 10, 15, 20 years of their lives, when they are trying to have their brains, their kidneys, and their liver become perfectly functionin...
Michael Shannon