Cats and Dogs, Sentinels in a Silent Spring | Poisoned Pets.
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This year marks the 50 year anniversary for Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring.
The eponymous book that warned of the dangers of pesticides, a book
many say prompted the environmental movement, led to the banning of the
pesticide DDT a decade later.
What many people don’t realise is that today, 50 years after Silent Spring
was published, we are exposed to more toxic chemicals than ever before,
an estimated 8,000-12,000 chemicals continue to be introduced annually,
with no requirement that human toxicity or exposure data be provided
before the chemical is used.
“Like the constant dripping of water
that in turn wears away the hardest stone,” she wrote in her 1962 book,
“this birth-to-death contact with dangerous chemicals may in the end
prove disastrous.”
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