Word: pest
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FOOD We'll favor fruits, grains and vegetables grown close to home, either in our backyard gardens [6] or on nearby organic farms [7]. It won't take much energy to get the fresh produce to local markets. Since the farms will employ natural forms of pest control rather than potentially toxic chemicals, there will be much less of a buildup of suspected carcinogens in the food supply...
...intimidated and didn't want to [be] a pest," Booker says...
roach-related complaints in Dunster--Eliot House has had roughly 18 of its rooms treated for cockroaches by Best Pest Control, Harvard's exterminators...
...Kreimeyer, owner of Best Pest, says cockroaches can appear in any room where the pipes have dried up and will not necessarily be confined to a specific floor or entryway...
...just amino acids but also chemicals that can trigger allergies in nut-sensitive consumers. The company quickly scrapped the product. Last spring a study published by Cornell University showed that pollen from some strains of corn with built-in pesticides can kill the larva of the Monarch butterfly, a pest by nobody's standards. "When butterflies start dying," says Kucinich, "I think it's fair to start asking questions...