Not necessarily.

In California, the state requires Proposition 65 warning labels on anything that is known to cause cancer (http://oehha.ca.gov/prop65.html). You see these warnings everywhere you go here -- on buildings, gas stations, etc. Everyone just ignores them. Otherwise, you'd basically have to stay home. Labeling genetically engineered food may turn out to have the same effect. If you see the warning on practically every food label are you going to quit eating? Of course, you could shop at a natural food store or buy organic but will the average Joe or Jane go to that trouble?

Actually herbicides are a class of pesticides formulated to kill weeds. Pesticides are a broad category of "economic poisons" which kill pests. Other kinds of pesticides include:

insecticides (insects)
fungicides (fungus, typically plant diseases)
nematicides (nematodes)
rodenticides (rodents)
 

> We have a hypothesis so we want people to panic and give us funding so we can actually see if there is a direct relationship
> between Colony Collapse Disorder

If you have been following the colony collapse story, you would already know that many entomologists suspect neonicotinoids as a possible part of the problem. Since pollination is a huge deal for agriculture, a lot of people really want to know the answer to CCD so it's not necessary to conjure up weird hypotheses to get funding. If you read any of the articles, you would also know that respected entomologists reviewing the papers thought they were well done.

The best way to select for antibiotic resistant bugs (on humans or any other animal) is to continually subject them to an antibiotic-filled environment (hospitals and farms). The story of resistant bacteria jumping from host to host, from farm to people vice versa, across the ocean, etc. doesn't seem particularly surprising. There are plenty of examples of bacteria & viruses moving between species. And, with global trade and travel, it's just a matter of time before diseases spread all over.

Antibiotics are like pesticides for the body. There are costs and benefits. Integrated pest management says that you should not prophylactically spray pesticides just in case you might get pests. You need to know whether you have economically damaging levels of the pest. Indiscriminate spraying leads to resistant insect pests or plant pathogens. Likewise, it's not wise to treat any animal with antibiotics without diagnosis of a disease. There might be short term gains but in the long run, you and everyone else loses with resistant pests...

Recently I had to deal with Apple's App Store. Our agency's purchasing people had no idea how to handle the App Store as the purchase has to be done from the user's computer. I spoke with an Apple government rep and he admitted that things are not set up for companies unless you're buying at least 30 (?) of something. Our purchasing folks ended up giving me the department credit card (now, there's trust!) and let me make the purchase from my cubicle. Not that hard to deal with, but certainly not standard procedure...

Actually, Steve Ballmer is not mentioned in TFA. The quote is attributed to "Nate McLemore, general manager of the Microsoft Health Solutions Group."

But, the irony stands...