"The Desolate Year"
Essay
By: Monsanto Chemical Company
Date: October 1962
Source: Monsanto Chemical Company. "The Desolate Year." Monsanto Magazine, October 1962.
About the Organization: In 1901, the chemist John Francis Queeny founded the Monsanto Chemical Company. Headquartered near St. Louis, Missouri, the company soon became a leading manufacturer of industrial chemicals. Since 1940, the company has consistently ranked among the top ten chemical companies in the United States. Among its most controversial products was dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT), a powerful and effective insecticide.
Introduction
Public health experts regard DDT as the greatest life-saving chemical ever developed. One consequence of its success is that it became the most widely applied chemical in human history. DDT is effective because unlike other pesticides it destroys hundreds of different...
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