A LOVE-HATE STORY: Our Enduring Embrace of Chemical Compounds, by Dian Cohen.

  Let’s be clear. Pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and other chemicals designed to kill undesirables are … well, killers. They’re dangerous. We’re not shy with our opinions. A recent Ipsos survey for Health Canada (Awareness and Confidence in Canada’s Pesticide Regulatory System) asked what we associate pesticides with. Respondents were almost twice as likely to…