Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20160214:06:26:00
Public health service to take a closer look at this? >> yes, and i know that they already are. i think, particularly, of course, since this ms. carson's book, but they are examining the matter. >> rachel carson wrote this book about pesticides called "silent spring" in 1962, and it talked about the long-term impacts, the concept of latency and bioaccumulation, which were all new terms. farm animals were dying with monotonous regularity because pesticides -- people didn't have any awareness that if a fish ate the bug that was poisoned by pesticides, that that was going to end up in our bodies. ...