18.03.2017 | permalink
If we are going to live so intimately with these
chemicals—eating and drinking them, taking them into
the very marrow of our bones—we had better know
something about their nature and their power, wrote
environmentalist Rachel Carson in 1962 in her book
Silent Spring, which hauntingly described the damaging
effects of indiscriminate pesticide use in agriculture
on animals and people in the USA. 55 years later, a new
report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
and the UN Special Rapporteur on toxics, presented to the
Human Rights Council on March 7, details the health and
