Ebook: Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science
Author: Carey Gillam (auth.)
- Tags: Environment (general)
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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In this volume, the author uncovers one of the most controversial stories in the history of food and agriculture, exposing new evidence of corporate influence. The author introduces readers to farm families devastated by cancers which they believe are caused by the chemical, and to scientists whose reputations have been smeared for publishing research that contradicted business interests. Readers learn about the arm-twisting of regulators who signed off on the chemical, echoing company assurances of safety even as they permitted higher residues of the pesticide in food and skipped compliance tests. And, in startling detail, the author reveals secret industry communications that pull back the curtain on corporate efforts to manipulate public perception.