Pesticide Quotes

“Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than you're likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!”
― Bruce Ames

“It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons”
― Rachel Carson

“These days, they use so much pesticide that when I feed the children, I have to soak the vegetables for at least two hours.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Pesticide is meant to deal with pests as passion is to deal with unnecessary loss of interest! Passion kills the ghosts of "I can't".”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes