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- noun Plural form of
pesticide .
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Examples
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Generations of cattle owners who dipped their livestock in pesticides ended up killing not only the ticks that feast on them, but also the red-billed oxpeckers that eat the ticks.
Operation Oxpecker: Red-Billed Oxpeckers Rediscovered By Cowherds As Natural Debugger, Replacement For Toxic Pesticide Cattle Dips The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Generations of cattle owners who dipped their livestock in pesticides ended up killing not only the ticks that feast on them, but also the red-billed oxpeckers that eat the ticks.
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The realization that every time we eat non-organic processed food, we are ingesting unlabeled, hazardous GMO foods and pesticides is indeed alarming.
Ronnie Cummins: Industrial Agriculture and Human Survival: The Road Beyond 10/10/10 Ronnie Cummins 2010
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Generations of cattle owners who dipped their livestock in pesticides ended up killing not only the ticks that feast on them, but also the red-billed oxpeckers that eat the ticks.
Operation Oxpecker: Red-Billed Oxpeckers Rediscovered By Cowherds As Natural Debugger, Replacement For Toxic Pesticide Cattle Dips The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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The realization that every time we eat non-organic processed food, we are ingesting unlabeled, hazardous GMO foods and pesticides is indeed alarming.
Ronnie Cummins: Industrial Agriculture and Human Survival: The Road Beyond 10/10/10 Ronnie Cummins 2010
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The realization that every time we eat non-organic processed food, we are ingesting unlabeled, hazardous GMO foods and pesticides is indeed alarming.
Ronnie Cummins: Industrial Agriculture and Human Survival: The Road Beyond 10/10/10 Ronnie Cummins 2010
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The scare about pesticides is part of some convoluted International Demonstration Effect where Indian elitists want us to follow the same standards as the West at a fraction of the standard of living.
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Despite advances in pesticides, fertilizers, and breeding, agriculture has “barely kept pace” with a booming population, leaving 14 percent of the world underfed.
Quick Study 2009
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The realization that every time we eat non-organic processed food, we are ingesting unlabeled, hazardous GMO foods and pesticides is indeed alarming.
Ronnie Cummins: Industrial Agriculture and Human Survival: The Road Beyond 10/10/10 Ronnie Cummins 2010
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Most fruits are covered in pesticides, from apples to blueberries, to strawberries, so whichever fruits your child favors, purchase organic.
Nancy Chuda: As TSCA Collapses, Toxic Baby Fights Back (VIDEO) Nancy Chuda 2010
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