The Pesticide Conspiracy by Robert Van Den Bosch ➤ Doubleday Books, 1978 First Edition

The Pesticide Conspiracy by Robert Van Den Bosch Doubleday Books, 1978 First Edition

Title: The Pesticide Conspiracy

Author: Robert Van Den Bosch

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Doubleday Books, 1978

Edition: First Edition

ISBN 10: 0385133847

Size: 5.75 X 8.5 * 226 pages

Synopsis: From the Jacket:

-In the past thirty years, pesticide use in the United States has increased twelvefold- and crop losses to insects have nearly doubled.
-Many insects, including the mosquitoes that carry diseases such as encephalitis and malaria, have become widely resistant to pesticides.
-Excessive spraying of pesticides often causes increasingly serious infestations of insect pests-by eliminating their natural enemies.
-Pesticides, carelessly used, have contaminated water supplies, bankrupted farmers, poisoned animals, and taken human lives.
-Better ways of controlling insects exist now. They are not being used.
Thanks to our indiscriminate use of pesticides, we are not only losing the war against insects but also endangering the environment, wildlife, our food supply- and our lives. And yet we continue on the "insecticide treadmill."

Did you know that pesticide companies finance much of the research in the pest- control field? That most insect-control "advisers" are pesticide salesmen? That the political muscle of the pesticide industry extends to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, the land-grant (aggie) universities, and the press?

In this book, a scientist who has worked in the field of pest control for over thirty years blows the whistle on the pesticide "Mafia" and suggests constructive, ecologically sound alternatives (including the limited use of selective pesticides when required) to its increasingly dan- gerous reliance on chemicals. The result is a hard-hitting, often shocking exposé of how the irresponsibility, greed, and ignorance of a few powerful men have put all our futures in jeopardy.

Robert van den Bosch is a professor of entomology and chairman of the Division of Biological Control at the University of California, Berkeley. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has also been a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the United Nations, and several foreign nations.

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