Author Goldstein, Joan.

Title Demanding clean food and water : the fight for a basic human right / Joan Goldstein.

Imprint New York : Plenum Press, c1990.
Location Call Number Status
 Monograph Collection  TD171.7 .G66 1990  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 271 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and index.
Contents The start of the chemical age: paradise found and lost -- A voice in the wilderness -- Pesticides and health: are there dangers -- Uncertain harvest: farm workers and rural communities -- Water -- Changing agriculture: the reformation -- The groundswell: demanding clean food and water -- Are we scaring ourselves to death? The media and the scientist report on the environment -- Return to the future.
Subject(s) Environmental protection -- Citizen participation.
Food contamination.
Water -- Pollution.