pesticide contamination

A letter to the editor published in the New York Times from Lloyd. This is from 1996.

Published: June 26, 1996

To the Editor:

A June 20 news article on the conversion of Fresno County, California, "the most fruitful farm county in America," to uncontrolled urban growth is a lament for family farmers, but it leaves out the costs that industrial agribusiness, as practiced in the county's San Joaquin Valley, has extracted from the resource base.