Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Al Meyerhoff

With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?