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Activist Dolores Huerta Speaks Out Against Pesticide Use
Good Times Santa Cruz ^ | May 7, 2025 | Isabella Blevins

Posted on 05/08/2025 5:58:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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Someone should warn her - it might not look good for her to be on RFK Jr.'s side.
1 posted on 05/08/2025 5:58:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Elon Musk’s farmhand robots can’t come soon enough.


2 posted on 05/08/2025 6:02:32 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The judges are ganging up against the American people.)
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Childhood cancer rates in the county are more than 38% above the nationwide childhood cancer rate of 16.3%.

What? Anyone should know this is ridiculous. One in six children does not have cancer. One in six children does not have a bout with cancer growing up.

3 posted on 05/08/2025 6:04:09 PM PDT by heartwood (Please blame all ridiculous or iinappropriate words on autocorrect. Thank you. )
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These people are going to lead us straight into a major famine.


4 posted on 05/08/2025 6:06:33 PM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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“Prominent farmworker activist and organizer Dolores Huerta..”

Never heard of her.


5 posted on 05/08/2025 6:07:33 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Then she won’t be a farm worker anymore.


6 posted on 05/08/2025 6:08:42 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: nickcarraway

Rachel Carson never died.


7 posted on 05/08/2025 6:11:14 PM PDT by Fungi
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WITHOUT PESTICIDES-—THERE IS NO CROP TO WORK ON, DUMMY.

HAVED YOU EVER SEEN AN INVASION OF “ARMY WORMS”???

I HAVE—_WHEN I WAS A KID ON A DAIRY FARM IN WISCONSIN.

THEY CRAWL ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE-—EATING ANYTHING & EVERYTHING.

ALFALFA/CORN/OATS/GARDEN/LAWN GRASS/PASTURE

SOME PEOPLE CANNOT EVEN FIND THE DOTS-—MUCH LESS CONNECT THE DOTS


8 posted on 05/08/2025 6:15:38 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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> These people are going to lead us straight into a major famine. <

That was my first thought as well. Agricultural pesticide use should be sensibly monitored. But my goodness. Go too far in the other direction, and the bugs will eat fine while people starve.


9 posted on 05/08/2025 6:18:58 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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BUT WHO WILL PICK THE CROPS?


10 posted on 05/08/2025 6:19:23 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: nickcarraway

she’s right.


11 posted on 05/08/2025 6:20:21 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Codeflier

THEY ALREADY MANAGED TO GET A CALIF LAW THAT BARS MACHINE HARVESTING


12 posted on 05/08/2025 6:23:40 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: nickcarraway

Now why is the fake news pushing this now................


13 posted on 05/08/2025 6:24:00 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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You notice she’s not down in Mehico’ complaining.


14 posted on 05/08/2025 6:25:40 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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Claim to fame was getting smacked.


15 posted on 05/08/2025 6:27:05 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ridesthemiles

I never eat anything with pesticides on it; organic Is not that much more $$.
Have been doing that for decades. My MD says I’m the healthiest person he’s ever seen at my age. 89 in June. Weight 116, try to walk at least 20 minutes a day, don’t eat any saturated fats, beef or pork.


16 posted on 05/08/2025 6:44:29 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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American beekeepers lost between 50 - 70 percent of their bee colonies last year due to pesticides and disease. No bees, no pollination, no food! Just say no to those “DIY home kits” and use natural methods of pest control that doesn’t kill our pollinators!


17 posted on 05/08/2025 6:46:39 PM PDT by Species8472 (Don't celebrate sin!)
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To: nickcarraway; ridesthemiles; FRiends

Our food chain really IS an absolute MESS! I Stand With RFK! (Jr.)

Putting in a PLUG here for our Monthly Garden Thread. Grow Your Own! Come Join Us! Save Yourselves, LOL!

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4314384/posts

For anyone that cares, the most pesticide-filled veggies and fruits that you normally buy at the grocery store are:

Strawberries
Spinach
Kale & Collards
Grapes
Peaches
Pears
Nectarines
Apples
Bell & Hot Peppers
Cherries
Blueberries
Green Beans

The ‘cleanest’ vegetables that you can buy are also at this link:

https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/full-list.php

Full Disclosure: My Piggly Wiggly had the Driscolls-brand Strawberries on sale (Buy 1 Get 1 FREE) a few weeks back. That is the brand this woman is fighting with. They were the most luscious, DELICIOUS, red-to-the-core actually-tasted-like-strawberries I have had in a very long time, other than out of my own Strawberry Patch. So, a few bugs died due to pesticide use. I hate bugs. What do they contribute? Other than Pollinators and ‘Good Bugs’ that are predators to the Bad Bugs, what do they deliver to Mankind? ;)


18 posted on 05/08/2025 7:02:05 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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Read, Turtles All the Way Down; the foreword was written by Mary Holland, who works for Children's Health Defense (the non-profit that RFK Jr founded) .

The authors make a pretty convincing argument that a lot of what was broadly labeled "polio" in the first half of the twentieth century was actually paralysis caused by pesticides.

19 posted on 05/08/2025 7:43:28 PM PDT by Captain Walker ("It is infinitely better to have a few good Men, than many indifferent ones." - George Washington)
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Here is a book for families wanting to grow pesticide free foods.

https://www.amazon.com/Food-Forest-Bible-Sustainable-Self-Managing/dp/B0D12HW1BM/ref=asc_df_B0D12HW1BM?


20 posted on 05/08/2025 7:44:43 PM PDT by Bronzy (CNN Fake News )
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