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Would Rachel Carson eat organic?

  • Written by Robert Paarlberg, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
'Silent Spring' author Rachel Carson testifies before a Senate Government Operations Subcommittee in Washington, D.C. on June 4, 1963. Carson urged Congress to curb the sale of chemical pesticides and aerial spraying. AP

Rachel Carson, who was born on May 27, 1907, and launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent...

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