I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in north-western Arkansas with so much faecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million are overwhelmingly Democrat because people who live in foreign countries have a much different perspective as to what is happening in our country. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighbourhood. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
The law in the United States, in every jurisdiction until about 1876, was that if a factory put smoke into the air, even one day a year, and it got onto a neighbour's property, the neighbour had the right to enjoin to close down the factory, and the courts had no choice but to do that. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birth right is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake, and the values of our nation are in peril. The future whispers, and the present shouts. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism that democratizes a country and makes us more efficient and prosperous and corporate crony capitalism. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
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