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?

This book addresses scientific realities and dispels unfounded fears regarding the safe use of chemicals.

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

While we need several more years of data to resolve questions about many chemicals, the early results suggest that fears of human exposure to chemicals are exaggerated and unwarranted.

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.