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Fear of Food
Andrea Arnold
其他書名
Environmentalist Scams, Media Mendacity, and the Law of Disparagement
出版Free Enterprise Press, 1990
主題Business & Economics / Industries / Food IndustryPolitical Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food PolicySocial Science / Media StudiesTechnology & Engineering / Agriculture / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Food Science / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Food Science / Food Safety & Security
ISBN09395710809780939571086
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0u9AAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Fear of Food is the story of how a campaign against one chemical, Alar, devastated apple growers from New York to Washington State, told for what it really was: A well-orchestrated effort to raise money and recruit supporters by frightened mothers with false alarms about apples and cancer. The fear of food, as author Andrea Arnold calls it, is one of the most serious collective panic attacks we as a nation have ever experienced. Its instigators, well-known interest groups and the news media, are threatening the agricultural productivity of the nation with highly exaggerated stories of imminent hazards that upon investigation turn out to be low-level risks already being removed by our regulatory agencies. Modern agriculture of the kind that feeds hundreds of millions of people cannot thrive without safe controls on the myriad of pests that decimate crops annually. Properly tested and approved pesticides are essential to our survival. By spreading false and misleading scare stories of exaggerated dangers from pesticides, the instigators could very well cause public panic and ill-conceived political measures that would destroy America's farm productivity- and the American farmer.