Sentences with phrase «case against toxins»

One could take Davis, who is the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, to task on the same grounds used by critics against Rachel Carson, whose book, Silent Spring, launched the modern environmental movement: Davis unabashedly makes the case against toxins and their health toll without presenting the other point of view.

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Now something similar is happening with animal pests and Bt toxins, although the Bt crops are largely holding their own after about 15 years of global use: cases of resistance are rare, popping up only where farmers fail to cultivate correctly (see «Super-pests are fighting back against killer crops «-RRB-.