Confronting Monsanto a Half-Century Ago: New Rachel Carson Documentary Honors Author of the Environmental Classic, ’Silent Spring’ | Alternet
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“Since the mid-1940s, over 200 basic chemicals have been created for use in killing insects, weeds, rodents, and other organisms described in the modern vernacular as ’pests’; and they are sold under several thousand different brand names,” Carson wrote. “Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life?”