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Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to but that was not the reason for the delay in the
Packaging, How Chemicals Have ban. They went slow so as not to inconvenience
Contaminated the Food Chain and Monsanto too much.
Are Making Us Sick Robin goes into the history of how we got
Marie-Monique Robin where we are today. In brief, it seems the pow-
The New Press ers that be thought it would be a shame to let the
chemical warfare expertise developed during
If you are not already aware of how perva- two world wars go to waste, so they declared
sive man-made poisons are in the environment, a new war—on nature. This war on nature has
reading this book may make you want to run produced some absurd results. In 1957 the USDA
back to your cave and hide. This book goes well decided to wipe out fire ants. The ants don’t cause
beyond just cataloging known toxins that we any crop damage and have never killed anyone
are exposed to and explains how the industries but we just don’t like them, so we’re going to
that produce them know they are dangerous and annihilate them all. The collateral damage from
connive to keep them on the market. One way this war was extensive and succeeded in killing
they do that is with slippery euphemisms. They birds and other small wild life in general. Farm
don’t make pesticides, for example. They produce livestock also took a big hit, along with dogs and
phytosanitary products. cats. After all the carnage the fire ant was more
The problems are not just confined to indus- widespread than ever. The program earned the
try itself but the agencies that are supposed to complete contempt of everyone who knew about
regulate them. For example, the herbicide Lasso it.
was banned in Canada in 1985 but not in Europe One expert estimated that where pesticides
until 2007 and then slowly. Why so slowly? Did are widely dispersed, only about 0.3 percent
they think maybe the Canadians were idiots? Ac- of that pesticide reaches its intended target. So
tually, I don’t know what they think of Canadians 99.7 percent is targeting something else. We

BOOK REVIEWS IN WISE TRADITIONS

The Weston A. Price Foundation receives two or three books per week, all of course seeking a Thumbs Up review.
What are the criteria we use for choosing a book to review, and for giving a Thumbs Up review?

• First and foremost, we are looking for books that add to the WAPF message. Dietary advice should incorporate the
WAPF guidelines while adding new insights, new discoveries and/or new therapies.

• We are especially interested in books on the fat-soluble vitamins, traditional food preparation methods and healing
protocols based on the WAPF dietary principles.

• We look for consistency. If you talk about toxins in vaccines in one part of your book, but say you are not against vac-
cines in another part of your book, we are unlikely to review it.

• We do not like to give Thumbs Down reviews. If we do not agree with the major tenets expounded in a book that is
sent to us, we will just not review it. However, we feel that we have an obligation to point out the problems in influential
or bestselling books that are peddling misinformation, and for these we will give a negative review. We also will give a
negative review to a book that misrepresents the findings of Weston A. Price.

• Please do not send us a book as an email attachment. Have the courtesy to send us a hard copy book or a print-out
of your ebook or manuscript in a coil binding.
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