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Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
St. Clair, Jeffrey
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/02/pesticides-clinton-style-politics-and-acceptable-death/Date Written: 2015-10-02 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX18086 In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry. Subject Headings |