NOTES

1. Lewis Regenstein. America the Poisoned (Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1982), 103.
2. League of Women Voters Education Fund. America's Growing Dilemma: Pesticide in Food and Water (Washington, DC: LWVEF. 1989), 1.
3. Richard Wiles, "Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment." October 21, 1993, Environmental Working Group, Washington, DC.
4. Environmental Protection Agency, Pesticides Industry Sales and Usage, 1990-1991 Market Estimates (Washington, DC: Economic Analysis Branch, Biological and Economic Analysis Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, EPA, Fall 1992), 2.
5. Ibid.
6. United States General Accounting Office, Report to the Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate. Pesticides: Limited Testing Finds Few Exported Unregistered Pesticide Violations on Imported Food (Washington, DC: GAO, October 1993), 3.
7. An article entitled "Backfire in the War Against Insects" by journalist Robert Strother in the June 1959 issue of Reader's Digest might actually have been the first widely circulated article on the risks associated with massive use of pesticides.
8. James R. Davis, Ross C. Brownson and Richard Garcia, "Family Pesticide Use in the Home, Garden, Orchard, and Yard," Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Vol. 22, 1992, 260-266.
9. National Research Council, Alternative Agriculture (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1989), 123.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., 121.
12. Ibid., 123.
13. Public Broadcasting Corporation's Frontline, "In Our Children's Food." Aired March 30, 1993. Martin Koughan, Producer and Director.
14. Nancy Blanpied, editor, Farm Policy, the Politics of Soil, Surpluses, and Subsidies (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1984), 73. Also see, David Pimentel, "Environmental and Economic Costs of Pesticide Use," BioScience, 1992.
15. National Research Council, Alternative Agriculture, (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1989), 123-124.
16. Ibid., 125.
17. Paul Cotton, "Environmental Estrogenic Agents Area of Concern," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 271. February 9, 1994. Theo Colborn, Frederick S. Von Saal and Ana M. Soto, "Developmental Effects of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Wildlife and Humans," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 101, No. 5. October 1993.
18. Environmental Protection Agency, Pesticide Industry Usage and Sales: 1990-1991 Market Estimates (Washington, DC: EPA, Office of Pesticide Programs. Fall 1992).
19. Janet Raloff, "The Gender Benders," Science News, Vol. 145 (January 8, 1994), 24-27.
20. Public Broadcasting Corporation's Frontline, "In Our Children's Food." Aired March 30, 1993. Martin Koughan, Producer and Director.
21. Lewis Regenstein, America the Poisoned (Washington, DC: Acropolis Press, 1982), 118.
22. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
23. Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, "What Americans Think About Agrichemicals: A Nationwide Survey on Health, the Environment and Public Policy," survey developed and administered by Fingerhut/Granados Opinion Research Co. (Washington DC: PVFHP, 1993). The authors have included only a few of the findings of this survey, which was designed to test not just attitudes towards pesticides but a whole range of topics relating to agriculture policy and consumer behavior. The nationally-representative sample of this survey was obtained using random digit dialing. For a discussion of the divergence of opinion about food safety and pesticide residues among food safety experts and consumers, see Carol S. Kramer, "Food Safety: The Consumer Side of the Environmental Issue," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, July 1994.
24. John E. Bonine and Thomas O. McGarity, The Law of Environmental Protection (St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1984), 700.
25. Ibid.