Since 1945, pesticide use has risen 3,300 percent, but overall crop loss due to pests has not gone down.  In fact, despite our pounding the United States with 2.2 Billion pounds of pesticides annually, crop losses shave increased 20 percent.  In the meantime more than five hundred pests have resistance to our most powerful chemicals."

"In 1900, if you put a dollar's worth of material and energy inputs into your farm, you'd produce $4.00 worth of crops, an input-to- production ratio of 1:4. Today, even though we produce more food, our genetically pauperized, oil- hungry crops cost more to grow. It takes $2.70 worth of oil- based inputs to produce $4.00 worth of crops, an input-to- production ratio of only 1:1.5."

"Cornell University ecologist David Pimentel reckons that society spends ten kilocalories of hydrocarbons to produce one kilocalorie of food.  That means each of us eats the equivalent of thirteen barrels of oil year."

"In Iowa, up to six bushels of soil are washed out to sea for every bushel of corn produced."