Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, how Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and are Making Us Sick
- ISBN-10
- 1595589090
- ISBN-13
- 9781595589095
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 470
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Author
- Marie-Monique Robin
Description
In a book that is the result of a rigorous two-year investigation, an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker reveals how chemicals in the environment and the food chain can be linked to increases in cancer, neurodegenerative disease and more. By the author of The World According to Monsanto. 20,000 first printing.
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- 2004-09-03
- 481 pages
- Ebook
- New Press, The
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