Unwelcome harvest : agriculture and pollution Agriculture pollutes pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the blue baby syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane ammonia nitrous oxide and the products of buring off all of which add to the worlds problems of acid rain depletion of the ozone layer and global warming. This book which focusses on the UK the USA and Third World countries is the first comprehensive review of agriculture and pollution it examines the facts and assesses the relative dangers of each pollution problem. It also considers the effects of pollution on agriculture itself crop yields are depressed and livestock damaged by various forms of pollution from all sources. The authors also offer solutions to these apparently overwhelming problems and describe existing technology which would allow us to deal with them.