Consumer Pesticide Concerns: A 1965 and 1984 Comparison

Sachs, Carolyn; Blair, Dorothy; Richter, Carolyn

doi:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1987.tb00190.x

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“…Also, many serious environmental and social problems remain to be corrected by improved government policies. A recent survey by Sachs et al (1987) confirmed Sachs' data that confidence in the ability of the US government to regulate pesticides declined from 98 % in 1965 to only 46% in 1985. Another survey conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (1989) found that 97% of the public were genuinely concerned that pesticides contaminate their food.…”

Section: Government Funds For Pesticide-pollution Controlmentioning

confidence: 61%

Environmental and Economic Costs of Pesticide Use

Pimentel¹,

Acquay²,

Biltonen³

et al. 1992

BioScience

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Section: Government Funds For Pesticide-pollution Controlmentioning

confidence: 61%

Environmental and Economic Costs of Pesticide Use

Pimentel¹,

Acquay²,

Biltonen³

et al. 1992

BioScience

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“…Since the late 1980s, awareness of the possible negative health effects that can result from consumption of pesticide residues in food has spurred concern about pesticide use and food handling by agricultural producers and processors (Roberts, Morales, Jordan Lin, Caswell, & Hooker, 1997;Sachs, Blair, & Richter, 1987). Concern is particularly focused on fruits and vegetables because consumption of these products is being encouraged for nutritional reasons (Eom, 1992;Stevens & Kilmer, 1999).…”

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Pesticide residues and vertical integration in Florida strawberries and tomatoes

2001

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Government regulations and consumer concern about pesticide residues in food may increase the costs of production and marketing for producers and processors associated with food safety risks. Vertical coordination is an economic response for mitigating the costs associated with uncertain pesticide residue levels. Data from a survey of Florida strawberry and tomato growers were used to test the hypothesis that vertical integration is associated with a lower mean and variance of pesticide residues. The results confirm a significant negative relationship between vertical integration and fungicide and insecticide residues in Florida strawberries and insecticides in Florida tomatoes. However, fungicides in tomatoes had the opposite effect. [Econ-Lit citations: L220, L660] © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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“…Sachs et al (137) indicate that consumer concern about pesticides increased between 1965 and 1984. In an ABC News poll in 2001 (1), 52% of US consumers that were asked, "If you saw a label on food at your market saying it had been grown or raised organically, without the use of pesticides, chemical fertilizers or feed additives, would you be more likely to buy it, less likely to buy it, or would it make no difference in your buying decision?"…”

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Fifty Years Since Silent Spring

Epstein¹

2014

Annu. Rev. Phytopathol.

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Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring exposed both observed and potential environmental and health externalities of the increasing organochlorine and organophosphate insecticide use in the United States post-World War II. Silent Spring was a critical component in a popular movement that resulted in increased regulation and the development of safer pesticides. Most changes in pesticide use in the global north have involved pesticide substitutions, although riskier pesticides remain in use. Many ideas in Silent Spring are compatible with the theory of integrated pest management (IPM), and IPM has been broadly embraced in the United States and internationally as a strategy for achieving least-use and/or least-risk pesticide use in agriculture. IPM is a politically feasible policy that purports to reduce pesticide use and/or risk in agriculture but often does not, except in extreme cases of pesticide overuse that result in negative agricultural/economic consequences for growers.

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Consumer Pesticide Concerns: A 1965 and 1984 Comparison

Cited by 63 publications

References 7 publications

Environmental and Economic Costs of Pesticide Use

Environmental and Economic Costs of Pesticide Use

Pesticide residues and vertical integration in Florida strawberries and tomatoes

Fifty Years Since Silent Spring

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