This incisive volume considers the impact of precautionary standards on international food security policies and explores its possible unintended consequences--including environmental degradation, the spread of disease, and a hungrier world.

What is the proper balance between crop protection and environmental and public health considerations? AEI scholar Jon Entine explores this question in a new edited volume, Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?

Jon Entine is available for comment on his book Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?

When it comes to stories on so-called toxic substances, the public discourse seems infected by "chemophobia."

Banning effective chemicals makes sense only if we gain identifiable health or environmental benefits in exchange.

When champions of genetically modified crops come face to face with the organic lobby, any common goals often get drowned out.

Given the measured way in which the EPA has reversed many anti-science biases of the Bush administration, it's disturbing to read the broadside against chemicals in "Legally Poisoned," by UC Riverside professor Carl Cranor.