Recounts a group of rural Oregon residents' efforts to stop the use of dangerous pesticides and looks at the way such poisons are approved for use

Bitter Fog

Politics & Social Sciences

Van Strum, Carol

Social Sciences

Random House, Inc.

A Bitter Fog is a true story of people living in the forests of Oregon fighting to protect their families and environment from Agent Orange poisons sprayed on them from the air. It puts human faces on those who defied profiteering corporations and indifferent government agencies and fought to protect their homes and families. It is the story of a struggle that spawned a still-vibrant environmental movement. This updated edition adds to the meticulously researched information of the 1983 edition, which exposed deception and outright fraud by chemical manufacturers and government complicity in covering up human health and environmental problems. The story is still relevant as the threats to human health and the environment are still happening, exposing millions to the senseless destruction wrought by pesticides, fracking, genetically modified food, and other assaults on the environment and human rights. A Bitter Fog was awarded the Christopher Award for 1983. The awards salute media that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit” and “encourage audiences to see the better side of human nature.”

A Bitter Fog: Herbicides and Human Rights

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Music, baseball, lost penguins, and murder grip a coastal town in the Pacific Northwest. When Molly Matthissen is arrested for the murder of an FBI agent, she is caught up in a small town legal system that has already determined her guilt. Children and friends from her tight-knit community desperately seek the evidence that will prove her innocence, while protecting penguin climate refugees from a media circus.

The Oreo File

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

A Bitter Fog is the true story of people fighting to protect their families and homes from Agent Orange and other poisons sprayed on them from the air. This book tells the story of ordinary people who defied profiteering corporations and indifferent government agencies. Meticulous research exposes deception and outright fraud by chemical companies to keep profiting from herbicides they knew were toxic and government complicity in covering up severe human health problems and environmental damage.Carol Van Strum, one of two women featured in the award-winning PBS documentary film The People vs. Agent Orange, tells a compelling story of a quest for justice in A Bitter Fog. The book was awarded the Christopher Award, which is presented to writers whose works "affirm the highest values of the human spirit."This new edition of A Bitter Fog adds a brief update on the fight for environmental justice and numerous photographs that add a new perspective to the story."A real life Toxic Avenger. It takes a village to raise a family, and it also takes individuals and groups in a community to make it safe for everyone."- Paul K. Haeder, in Street Roots"An excellent and horrifying read."- Joyce Thompson, Author of How To Greet Strangers"A Bitter Fog is the shocking and infuriating story of how the timber industry and the U.S. Forest Service, spraying herbicides containing dioxin, destroyed the health and killed the unborn children of families in communities throughout the Pacific Northwest."- Lewis Regenstein for USA Today"This well-documented, hard-hitting book deserves serious study at all levels of government as well as by citizen organizations."- Publisher's Weekly

A Bitter Fog: Herbicides & Human Rights

Biological Sciences

Jericho Hill Publishing

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