Product Description: Pesticides have contributed impressively to our present-day agricultural productivity, but at the same time they are at the center of serious concerns about safety, health, and the environment. Increasingly, the public wonders whether the benefits of pesticides - `the perfect red apple' - outweigh the costs of environmental pollution, human illness, and the destruction of animals and our habitat...read more

Product Description: Explores contemporary social criticism of agriculture by analyzing matters such as animal welfare, biotechnology, ethics and human nature. Much ethical criticism of agriculture has been dismissed by researchers, policy makers, and producers as being irrational. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)