Source: SIERRA CLUB, 10/14/17


"Outrage" is the only word that captures the experience of reading Carey Gillam's Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science (Island Press, 2017). Her exhaustive examination of the history of glyphosate—the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup—reveals that a herbicide as common as laundry detergent is the health and environmental calamity of modern agriculture. 

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