#Its naive to think other industries don't benefit from the deadliness of cigarettes and the way we've framed addiction as 'poor choice.'

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Also, while this affected basically everyone in the US who ate the food and interacted with plants, it predominately affected minimum and subminimum wage workers who handled gardening, lawn care, agriculture, were exterminators, in construction, etc.

I have a handful of relatives who died very young from cancer and people were eager to blame their vices like smoking, drinking, doing drugs, which certainly contributed, but it seems incredibly suspicious since so many of them worked as gardeners and exterminators for decades. How many people in the US have permanent health problems or die early deaths from exposure to pesticides and it's written off as their own fault so companies wouldn't have to compensate them or their families?

In the library I have been reading lots of books about pesticides and related topics. The library's physical print collection skews toward older books, so there are lots of books over 50 years old.

I will share the findings in subsequent reblogs, but for now I'll say this: Filmmakers and novelists working in the most gory, nauseating crevices of the horror genre could never dream something more twisted, disgusting and absolutely blood-curdling as a book about Turfgrass Lawns from the 1960's.