Startling figures reveal pesticide health assaults

摘要

In the decades since the 'Green Revolution' of the 1960s the negative impacts of pesticides have spawned a great wealth of literature. Burgeoning evidence continues to accumulate in academic periodicals, while accounts of poisoned ecosystems and contaminated food chains have long since ventured from the university to the high street bookstore. Under the circumstances it takes a brave author to look for a new analysis on such well trodden ground.