At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or ...

As a child of the 1950s, I remember hot summer nights when we got relief from the heat only when a truck came by spraying a cool mist that would kill mosquitoes. We kids ran after that mist like it ...

Toward that end, the sector and governments are investing through organizations such as the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity. It aims to better understand what concerns consumers, who they look to ...