Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South

by Pete Daniel

Book Overview

Following World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic market. In Toxic Drift, Daniel documents the particularly disastrous effects this campaign had on the South's public health and environment, exposing the careless mentality that allowed pesticide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807132454
• ISBN13: 9780807132456
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"