![]() ![]() Toxic is set to become a landmark book of the twenty-first century. If you care about what you eat, if you care about the environment, this is a book you need to read. ![]() In the way that Rachel Carson took on the pesticide industry in her ground-breaking book Silent Spring, Flanagan tears open an industry that is as secretive as its practices are destructive and its product disturbing.įrom the burning forests of the Amazon to the petrochemicals you aren’t told about to the endangered species being pushed to extinction you don’t know about from synthetically pink-dyed flesh to seal bombs. ![]() Richard Flanagan’s exposé of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania is chilling. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic salmon sustainably harvested in some of the world’s purest waters?īut what are we eating when we eat Tasmanian salmon? Richard Flanagan is the author of five previous novels Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and Wanting which have received numerous honors and have been published in twenty-six countries. In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. ![]()
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