The war on bugs
By: Will Allen.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: White River Junction, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781933392462
Subjects: Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- United States.; Agricultural chemicals industry -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-260) and index.
Table of contents: value: The roots of farming in the Americas; value: America's first farm revitalization movement; value: The birth of the rural journals; value: Guano and the birth of the rural-industrial mouthpiece; value: Liebig and the industrialists; value: The fertilizer merchants; value: The medical ancestry of pesticides; value: Ratcatchers, quacks, and early pest control in America; value: The populist farmers' movement; value: Paint pigments and other lethal poisons; value: Arsenic regulation, the FDA, and other regulatory hoaxes; value: The first advertised war on the farms; value: Populist farmers, the Red Scare, and the origin of modern organic movement; value: Pesticide spray devices, household poisons, and Dr. Seuss; value: Medical heroes, war heroes, and more regulation struggles; value: The pesticides of the 1930s; value: Bombs and fertilizers; value: War toys; value: Animal confinement and the pharmaceutical farm; value: DDT and other second-generation pesticides under attack; value: Twenty-first century populism: organic farming and the anti-factory-farm movement; value: Designer genes: a leap of faith; value: 160 years of poisonous advertising; value: Who invited these chemicals to dinner? a leap of hope.; value: The roots of farming in the Americas; value: America's first farm revitalization movement; value: The birth of the rural journals; value: Guano and the birth of the rural-industrial mouthpiece; value: Liebig and the industrialists; value: The fertilizer merchants; value: The medical ancestry of pesticides; value: Ratcatchers, quacks, and early pest control in America; value: The populist farmers' movement; value: Paint pigments and other lethal poisons; value: Arsenic regulation, the FDA, and other regulatory hoaxes; value: The first advertised war on the farms; value: Populist farmers, the red scare, and the origin of modern organics; value: Pesticide spray devices, household poisons, and Dr. Seuss; value: Medical heroes, war heroes, and more regulation struggles; value: The pesticides from the 1930s; value: Bombs and fertilizers; value: War toys; value: Animal testing and the pharmaceutical farm; value: DDT and other second-generation pesticides under attack; value: Twenty-first century populism; value: Designer genes: a leap of faith; value: 160 years of poisonous advertising; value: Who invited these chemicals to dinner? a leap of hope.