Growers and Grocers

While watching a Bones rerun about green living, compost, and organic farming, I picked up on a few lines that, as someone really trying to live a green life, I found VERY amusing:

• I put solar panels in my house. Compact Fluorescents in every socket. And I still feel guilty when I use a paper napkin.
• The road to the apocalypse is paved with disposable food containers, my friend!

• Booth: If pesticides are so bad for us, then how come people live longer now than they did before they used pesticides?

Bones: You’re over simplifying an enormously complex issue.

Booth: Ha ha ha… meaning you don’t have a good answer.

Bones: The arguments in favor of organic farming aren’t just about food safety; they’re about prevention of soil erosion, protection of water quality, carbon emissions from shipping. Not to mention…

Booth: Whatever… you’re not going to see me paying $4.00 for a tomato.

Bones: You know… a researcher at the University of Florida proved that alligators that swam in pesticide contaminated waters have smaller genitalia than their clean-water counterparts.