Show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, talks with Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, senior scientist with Pesticide Action Network of North America and director of the PANNA’s Grassroots Science Program and Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food and Water Watch, about pesticides that continue to contaminate conventionally grown fruits and vegetables and whether we really need these toxic chemicals to produce enough food to feed the world.