TY - BOOK AU - Avery,Dennis T. TI - Saving the planet with pesticides and plastic: the environmental triumph of high-yield farming SN - 1558130519 (pbk.) U1 - 630 AVE 23 PY - 1995/// CY - Indianapolis, Indiana PB - Hudson Institute KW - Agriculture KW - Environmental aspects KW - Agricultural productivity N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1 Saving Lives and Wildlife 8 -- Chapter 2 Wildlife and the Acres Not Plowed 29 -- Chapter 3 There Is No Upward Population Spiral 48 -- Chapter 4 Preventing Cancer with Pesticides 65 -- Chapter 5 Children, Farmers, and Pesticides 94 -- Chapter 6 Intensive Meat Production for the 21st Century 114 -- Chapter 7 Do the Rat Tests Mean Anything? 134 -- Chapter 8 There Is Much Less Hunger Than We've Been Told 148 -- Chapter 9 Organic Farming: More Problem Than Solution 168 -- Chapter 10 Who Has a Soil Crisis? 192 -- Chapter 11 Is High-Yield Farming Sustainable? 213 -- Chapter 12 Seeds of Success 238 -- Chapter 13 Drink Up, the Water's Fine 256 -- Chapter 14 If We Stop Wasting the Water ... 269 -- Chapter 15 The New War Against Plant Nutrients 280 -- Chapter 16 More People and More Trees: Saving Forests with Technology 298 -- Chapter 17 Can We Rescue the Rain Forests? 315 -- Chapter 18 Saving the Planet with Plastic? 333 -- Chapter 19 Conserving with Cows 342 -- Chapter 20 Biotechnology: The Ultimate Conservation Solution? 357 -- Chapter 21 Subsidies or Free Farm Trade: Which Will Win the 21st Century? 374 -- Chapter 22 New Excuses for Bad Regulations 398 -- Chapter 23 Who Are These People? 422 -- Chapter 24 What Can Farmers Do? 447 UR - http://openisbn.com/isbn/1558130519/ ER -