The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides

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Mitchel Cohen coordinates the No Spray Coalition in New York City, which successfully sued the city government over its spraying of toxic pesticides. In 1997, he organized the campaign to rid NYC public schools of milk from cows injected with Monsanto's genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone, and in 2001, he ran for Mayor of NYC as one of five Green Party candidates. He was editor of the national newspaper Green Politix, and of the NY State Green Party newspaper. Mitchel cofounded the Red Balloon Collective at SUNY Stony Brook, chaired WBAI radio’s Local Board, and authored The Social Construction of Neurosis, What is Direct Action?, Listen Bookchin!, An American in Revolutionary Nicarargua, and three books of poetry, One-Eyed Cat Takes Flight, The Permanent Carnival and, The Rubber Stamp Man.

 

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"We are being poisoned, and this book is sounding a well-informed alarm. Read it. Get educated and then join the thousands rising up against those who care more for profit than the health of our bodies and our earth."-Eve Ensler, New York Times bestselling author

Chemical poisons have infiltrated all facets of our lives-housing, agriculture, work places, sidewalks, subways, schools, parks, even the air we breathe. More than half a century since Rachel Carson issued Silent Spring-her call-to-arms against the poisoning of our drinking water, food, animals, air, and the natural environment-The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup takes a fresh look at the politics underlying the mass use of pesticides and the challenges people around the world are making against the purveyors of poison and the governments that enable them.

The scientists and activists contributing to The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup, edited by long-time Green activist Mitchel Cohen, explore not only the dangers of glyphosate-better known as "Roundup"-but the campaign resulting in glyphosate being declared as a probable cancer-causing agent. In an age where banned pesticides are simply replaced with newer and more deadly ones, and where corporations such as Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and DuPont scuttle attempts to regulate the products they manufacture, what is the effective, practical, and philosophical framework for banning glyphosate and other pesticides?

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides takes lessons from activists who have come before and offers a radical approach that is essential for defending life on this planet and creating for our kids, and for ourselves, a future worth living in. This paperback edition is updated with a new preface and introduction by Mitchel Cohen.