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The only hope is that people are learning. We want to see pesticides used like antibiotics. We cannot put the whole nation on antibiotics fearing that [people] will one day get sick.

Nancy Alderman
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Keeping pesticides out of streams is the ultimate goal. Farmers who have some of the old stuff -- because they bought a farm and it's not labeled -- this gave them an avenue to get rid of it.

Dennis Roth
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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.

David Mckeown
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The cost of everything has gone up. Whether it is pesticides, diesel, generator, tractor or running the bore.

Daljit Singh
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We, by law, cannot continuously apply pesticides to the same places.

Kyle Bordelon
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I really think we do a pretty good job of working with pesticides in this country and that's one of the reasons I'm not particularly concerned.

George Gray
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The way a farmer applies pesticides varies to a reasonable degree of accuracy.

Peter Johnston
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Sometimes (the exposure) was more than once a day. They would come out of the fields covered. Their clothes would be green with pesticides. Their throats would be dry. They would be coughing. They were suffering from skin ailments.

Andrew Yaffa
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It's still not safe to go in the water. Besides the bacteria, there are other contaminants that's in the water -- we have pesticides, heavy metals, stuff like that.

Watson Okubo
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The chemical pesticides they (farmers) have been using have become less effective or have been regulated away from them.

Tom Larsen
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I think pesticides has moved to the top of the committee's agenda. That was the biggest surprise of the day.

Sen. Dave Aronberg
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There probably is ... zero risk of any of these pesticides in the food supply.

Adam Goldberg
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You have those beautiful orange globes in the fall, and they don't require any pesticides to keep going.

Cindy Brown
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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 functioning organs, ... These chemicals can interrupt this process.

Michael Shannon
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Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Alan Greene
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By allowing the fire to burn, the pesticides and herbicides have been able to completely combust, which pretty much gets rid of the toxic effects of those chemicals.

Steve Zweigart
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They didn't have pesticides in the 18th century.

David Nielsen
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They're like the kidneys of surface water management. They provide filtration for contaminants like fertilizers, pesticides and metals.

Patrick Joyce
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These folks, along with hundreds of others, are out there in the fields, exposed to all kinds of pesticides known to maim, cause birth defects, respiratory problems, skin ailments, headaches, nausea, and it's been disregarded.

Andrew Yaffa
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Our efforts at doing these follow-up investigations was really helpful at telling the story. We now know where the exposures are happening, the types of pesticides, the method of application.

Elaine Fischer
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Lawn and garden is one of our biggest departments, it covers everything from fertilizers, pesticides, mulch, shovels, rakes, and mowers.

Edward Shenk
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