27-04-2019, 03:48 AM
Language: English | | Format: epub | Size: 5.41 MB |
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Chemical poisons have infiltrated all facets of our lives – housing, agriculture, work places, sidewalks, subways, colleges, parks, even the air we breathe. More than half a century since Rachel Carson issued Silent Spring – her call-to-arms against the poisoning of our drinking water, food, animals, air, and the natural environment – The Politix of Pesticides takes a fresh look at how activists around the world are fighting back against Monsanto's most dangerous creation, glyphosate.
The scientists and activists contributing to The Politix of Pesticides, edited by long-time Green activist Mitchel Cohen, explore not only the dangers of glyphosate – better known as "Roundup" – but the campaign which ended with glyphosate declared as a cancer-causing agent. In an age where banned pesticides are simply replaced with newer and more deadly ones, and where corporations such as Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and DuPont scuttle attempts to...


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