Current reading
May. 28th, 2009 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreSo I'm reading Silent Spring by Rachael Carson. I've only read the first couple of chapters so far but there are two things I'm taking from it.
- Things haven't changed that much in the almost 50 years since it's been printed, that's scary.
- The chemicals she talks about were originally formulated for biological warfare - and then countries started using the same chemicals on themselves instead.
Some people try so hard to obtain organic food these days, but the way these chemicals hang around, I doubt ANYTHING is truly industrial chemical/pesticide free anymore.
- Things haven't changed that much in the almost 50 years since it's been printed, that's scary.
- The chemicals she talks about were originally formulated for biological warfare - and then countries started using the same chemicals on themselves instead.
Some people try so hard to obtain organic food these days, but the way these chemicals hang around, I doubt ANYTHING is truly industrial chemical/pesticide free anymore.
