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Crop chemophobia : will precaution kill the green revolution? /

Crop chemophobia : will precaution kill the green revolution? / Jon Entine, editor. - Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, c2010. - viii, 158 p. : charts ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : food, pests, and the chemical conundrum / Jon Entine -- European pesticides and herbicides in the crosshairs / Euros Jones -- The problems with precaution : a principle without principle / Jonathan H. Adler -- The case of atrazine / Jon Entine -- The tart cherry : pesticides and precaution / Mark Whalon and Jeanette Wilson -- Unintended consequences : dangerous misconceptions about public health insecticides, the environment, and human health / Richard Tren -- Precaution, custom, and the World Trade Organization / Claude Barfield -- Feeding a hungry world : opportunity and obligation for U.S. agriculture / Doug Nelson and Alexander Rinkus.

9780844743615 (cloth) 0844743615 (cloth) 9780844743639 (ebook) 0844743631 (ebook)

2010035739


Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
Environmental risk assessment.

QH545.P4 / C76 2010

363.17/92

WA 701

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