We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.
Interpretation
Cesar Chavez emphasizes the important relationship between farm workers and food safety, highlighting the dangers of agricultural pesticides.
In this quote, Cesar Chavez reflects on the vital role that farm workers play in the food production process and their unique awareness of the health risks associated with agricultural pesticides. He underscores that those who work directly with food are not only crucial to its production but are also first-hand witnesses to the dangers posed by chemicals that can affect both the consumers of food and the workers themselves, advocating for greater awareness and safety in agriculture.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of organic farming practices.
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have.
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There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.
Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle.
Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.
Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word βatomβ to signify these ultimate particles.
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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.
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