a revolution is three meals away.
Whereas pesticides death are so much easier to control since they don't happen simultaneously, they happen way less and is overall net positive.
Accidents happen on roads with cars, that doesn't mean we should ban cars though (though in all honesty, maybe we should all use buses and use less cars, maybe this is a shitty argument?)
I am personally a two wheeler electric kind of guy since electric cars are way too expensive and I actually want to have cheap transport and I am comfortable for 99% use cases otherwise for the rare cases, I might use Uber and I am still net positive.
Funnily enough, I was looking at this saying recently. There are several variations so it's hard to find the "one true version".
The canonical version is more likely: "There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. " - Alfred Henry Lewis, 1906
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Henry_Lewis
Implying that roughly three days of total breakdown of essential systems would cause societal breakdown. One day wouldn't do it, but it wouldn't last a week.
Is it true? That's not for me to say, and lets not run the experiment. The versions where the quote is "three meals" and the version where Lenin or Stalin said it don't appear to be accurate.