Al Meyerhoff Quotes

United States, Labor Historian
September 20, 1947 – December, 21, 2008.

Albert Henry "Al" Meyerhoff Jr. was an American labor, environmental and civil rights attorney. One of his cases sought to eliminate sweatshop conditions for workers on the island of Saipan, a part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands that operates under the jurisdiction of the United States court system.

Also known as Environmentalist, Attorney At Law

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

Al Meyerhoff
- Reality
- Exposed
- Toxic
With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

Al Meyerhoff

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?

Al Meyerhoff