Introduction (idea for quote used from the foreword of Poison[1]) Excerpt from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson [2] “There was once a town where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings… Then a strange blight crept over the area…Mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sicken died. Everywhere was the shadow of death. The farmers spoke of much illness in their families. In the town, the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sicknesses…