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Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mitchell, H.L. (author)
Format:: Book
Publication Date:: 1979
Published:: USA: Allanheld, Osmun, Montclair, New Jersey.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36359
Notes:: 358 pages.

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Harmer, Ruth M. (author)
Format:: Book
Publication Date:: 1971
Published:: USA: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21180
Notes:: Critique of pesticides used in food production. Indiscriminate use by farmers (p. 17). Medical problems created for farm workers and others (p. 56-71). Inadequate legal mechanism for protecting consumers against pesticides (p. 73-110), emphasizing inadequacy of USDA in this regard. Educators being hired to serve industrial interests (111-127). Analysis of appeals in pesticide usage, emphasizing benefits over hazards (p. 128-145). Fertilizer industry also endangers health (p. 146-158). Suggestins for solving pest problems without pesticides (p. 173-273).

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