First of all, thanks so much for the GM food documentary. It is timely, insightful, balanced and well done. My congratulations to you and Yohgyuan Cui.

首先，非常感谢关于转基因食品的电视纪录片。及时、富有洞察力、平衡的观察，制作的非常好。向你与崔永元表示祝贺。

The lessons of "Poison Spring" are relevant to China.

“毒化的春天”与中国相关。

The book decries the abuse of power from the chemical and agribusiness industries as well as government executives.

这部书对化学产业与农业产业以及政府决策官员们滥用权力进行了谴责。

That abuse has accelerated pollution of waters, food and the natural world. The result of such irresponsible behavior is disease and death among people and animals, especially wildlife.

权力的滥用加速了水、食物与自然界的污染。这种不负责任的行为的结果在民众与动物中，特别野生动物中，造成疾病与死亡。

These effects are also evident in China because China is industrializing its ancient agriculture.

这样的影响在中国也非常显然，因为中国也在对其原始的农业实行工业化。

China also follows the Western / American model of environmental regulation, including this model's major defects.

中国也在效仿西方/美国环境监管模式，包括效仿这种模式的主要缺陷。

One of those defects is reliance on pesticides, petrochemicals deleterious to all life.

这种监管模式的缺陷之一是依赖危害所有生命的农药、石化产品。

Second, governments, probably the government of China, rely on the industry to test its products.

这种监管模式的第二个缺陷是，各国政府，中国政府也可能同样，依赖于产业界测试自己产品的安全性。

"Poison Spring" documents why such a policy is bad.

“毒化的春天”记录了依赖于产业界测试自己产品安全性的政策为什么有害。

Companies making profits from chemicals are not going to be entirely honest about the test they perform. China ought to abolish pesticides. But should it be necessary to use pesticides, a Chinese government agency ought to test chemicals.

企业公司要从自己的化学产品获利，他们对他们测试的情况不会完全诚实。中国应当中国应该废化学除草剂、杀虫剂。但是如果有必要使用某些除草剂、杀虫剂，应当由政府机构负责对这些化学品的测试。

Finally, "Poison Spring" argues that "environmental protection" is essential to health, life and national and world security.

最后，“毒化的春天”论证“环境保护”对健康、声明、国家与世界安全至关重要。

Pollution is deadly, sometimes immediately, but, most often, in the long term.

污染意味着死亡，有时是立即死亡，但是，最大部分情况，是长期缓慢死亡。

The book also documents that the best way out of excessive pollution or contamination of drinking water and food in small farms.

这本书同时介绍小规模家庭农场如何成为摆脱对饮水与食物过量污染的最好方法。

China has an honorable and ancient tradition of small farms. Chinese small family farmers have all the agroecological knowledge they need to raise the country's food without pesticides or very small amounts of pesticides. Besides, small farmers are very productive and efficient. China needs no foreign models of development.

中国具有小农场荣耀的和古老传统。中国小农场农民拥有不用农药或者仅使用很少量农药解决全国食物需要的所有农业生态知识。此外，小规模农户生产能力强非常有效。中国发展生态农业不需要任何外国模式。

For these reasons "Poison Spring" speaks to the reality in China. I would recommend you translate and publish the book in China.

由于这些理由，“毒化的春天”所谈的正是中国面临的现实。我推荐你们翻译并且在中国出版这部著作。

E. G. Vallianatos is the author of five books, including Harvest of Devastation and This Land is Their Land, as well as more than two hundred articles, including pieces in Alternet.org and Truth-Out.org. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post. He worked in risk evaluation at the EPA for twenty-five years, and now lives in Claremont, California.

E·G·瓦连纳托斯是五部书的作者，包括《收获灾难》与《这个土地是他们的土地》，以及两百多篇文章的作者，包括在开放式学术刊物Alternet.org 与Truth-Out.org上发表的多篇论文。他同时为《赫芬顿邮报》担任博客专栏作者。他在美国环境保护署工作了25年，从事风险评价工作。他居住在加利福尼亚州Claremont市。

His coauthor McKay Jenkins has been writing about humans and the natural world for just as long. His most recent book, What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World, was hailed as “a Silent Spring for the human body” by Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone. Jenkins is the Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English, Journalism, and Environmental Humanities at the University of Delaware, where he has won the Excellence in Teaching Award.

合作作者麦凯·詹金斯二十多年来长期写作关于人类与自然界的文章。他最近出版的著作《什么进入了我们的体内：在毒性世界保持健康》，被理查德·普勒斯顿赞扬为“人体的情悄悄的春天”，普勒斯顿为畅销书《热区域》的作者。詹金斯在特拉华大学英语、新闻学与人文环境学教授，获得“优异教授”奖，与Cornelius Tilghman齐名。

Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.

相像一下，你走进一家餐厅，发现菜单上某些菜的说明说这道菜含氯代烃类残留，那道菜含烟碱类杀虫剂杀虫剂残留，你会是什么感觉。实际上，菜单中没有这样的注明，但你吃的许多食物中确实有。

These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic substances dumped into the environment every day, not just in the US but around the world.

这只是每天倾泻到环境中数百万磅经过批准的化合物中的几种，不仅仅在美国，而且在全世界各地。

They seep into our water supply, are carried thousands of miles by wind and rain from the site of application, remain potent long after they are deposited, and constitute.

这些化合物渗入我们的水供应系统，风和雨把它们从喷洒地携带到数千英里之外，它们被丢弃与构成后很长时间保持其强大毒性作用。

In the words of one scientist, “biologic death bombs with a delayed time fuse and which may prove to be, in the long run, as dangerous to the existence of mankind as the arsenal of atom bombs.”

如一位科学家所说，“生物死亡炸弹带有一个延迟起启动引信，长期而言，它们对人类生存的危险性不亚于核武器库。”

All of these poisons are sanctioned--or in some cases, ignored--by the EPA. 

所有这些毒素都得到美国环境保护署的认可，或某些情况下被他们忽略。

For twenty-five years E.G. Vallianatos saw the EPA from the inside, with rising dismay over how pressure from politicians and threats from huge corporations were turning it from the public's watchdog into a "polluter's protection agency."

E·G·瓦连纳托斯从内部对美国环保管理署（EPA）观察了25年，亲眼看到EPA在政治家们的压力下与巨头公司的威胁下如何从公共监察机构堕落为“污染保护机构”，让他越来越沮丧。

Based on his own experience, the testimony of colleagues, and hundreds of documents Vallianatos collected inside the EPA, Poison Spring reveals how the agency has continually reinforced the chemical-industrial complex.

基于他自己的经验，同事们的证词，以及瓦连纳托斯在EPA内部收集到的数百个文件，“毒化的春天”揭露EPA如何不断强化了化学--产业体。

Writing with acclaimed environmental journalist McKay Jenkins, E.G. Vallianatos provides a devastating exposé of how the agency created to protect Americans and our environment has betrayed its mission.

与著名的环境记者麦凯·詹金斯一起撰写这本书，E·G·瓦连纳托斯致命揭露了为了保护美国人与我们的环境美国环境保护署如何从背叛了其宗旨。

Half a century after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring awakened us to the dangers of pesticides, we are poisoning our lands and waters with more toxic chemicals than ever.

雷切尔·卡森《寂静的春天》让我们醒悟农药的危险后半个世纪，我们正在用毒性严重的多的化学品毒化我们的土地和水。

Two outstanding environmental writers team up to tell the excoriating story of catastrophic collusion between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the chemical industry.

两位知名的环境保护保护作家结伴揭露环境影保护署（EPA）与化学产业之间灾难性勾结的故事。

Vallianatos worked for the EPA from 1979 to 2004 and witnessed the systematic undermining of the agency’s mission to set standards for environmental and health safety by major chemical manufacturers whose ruthless lobbying strategies were as insidious as the ecologically disastrous pesticides they aggressively promoted and brazenly misused.

瓦连纳托斯从1979年到2004年为EPA工作了25年，亲眼目睹对环境与健康安全性设立标准的环境保护署的职责如何遭到主要化学企业集团系统性的破坏，他们无情的游说策略像他们厚颜无耻大力推广的生态灾难杀虫剂一样阴险。

The title of this jaw-dropping exposé is a riff on Rachel Carson’s 1963 landmark protest of the use of DDT, Silent Spring.

这部令人惊叹揭露专著的题目仿效自雷切尔·卡森1963年抗议使用DDT里程碑意义的《寂静的春天》。

The carefully documented crimes and betrayals Poison Spring reveals unfold on two fronts.

《毒化的春天》从两个方面展开与翔实记录一系列犯罪与背叛。

Most alarming are the harrowing facts about the thousands of deadly synthetic chemicals that have for decades been released into the biosphere and which we continually absorb, from dioxin to agrochemical nerve gas to the weed killer Roundup.

最为令人警觉的是数千种致命毒素化合物释放到生物圈中几十年悲惨事实，我们至今还在吸收二恶英到农业化学神经毒气到草甘膦除草剂农达。

Vallianatos and Jenkins explain the science behind these poisons and their many dire effects, from cancer to the death of honeybee colonies.

瓦连纳托斯与詹金斯解释了这些毒素后边的科学及其一系列可怕的影响，从致癌到蜜蜂群死亡。

Equally appalling is the silencing of heroic EPA whistle--blowers, fraudulent scientific studies, and the hijacking of the democratic process.

同样令人震惊的是揭露环境保护署使英勇的举报者沉默、欺骗性的科学研究，以及对民主进程的劫持。

In this riveting indictment, Vallianatos and Jenkins valiantly divulge the blinding greed and unfathomable stupidity behind these unconscionable lies and travesties—assaults against the very fabric of life.

这些引人入胜的控诉中瓦连纳托斯与詹金斯勇敢地披露这些不合理谎言背后炫目的贪婪和深不可测的愚蠢和悲剧 -- 攻击损害生命的根基。

A resounding call for genuine and sustained environmental responsibility.

这部著作对真正和持续的环保责任发出响亮的呼唤。

— Donna Seaman

-- 多娜·希曼

Vallianatos, after a 25-year stint at the Environmental Protection Agency, pulls back the curtain on the watchdog agency’s failure to guard public safety and monitor land use due to steady erosion of its enforcement practices. With environmental journalist Jenkins he blasts the EPA’s ineptitude since its 1970 inception, intensely pressured as it is by politicians and corporations to approve the use of synthetic chemicals without proper testing—“biologic death bombs” in the air, water, and in our bodies.

瓦连纳托斯，在美国环境保护署工作了25年之后，揭开了掩盖真相的幕布，揭露这个监管机构的执法实践如何遭到持续侵蚀，背叛了其保护公众安全和监测土地利用的职责。

The EPA, through its Congressional mandate, enforces more than a dozen environmental laws, yet it has approved hundreds of pesticides that have been used unnecessarily, excessively, or which have been outright abused, the book contends.

美国环境保护署（EPA），通过国会授权，强制执行一系列环境保护法规，然而正是EPA批准了原本不必要或者从一开始滥用的数百种农药，这本书说。

Vallianatos does give the agency credit for the hard-fought ban on DDT that was opposed by the chemical companies and pesticide apologists.

瓦连纳托斯对EPA争取到遭到化学公司与农药辩护者反对禁绝DDT的斗争给与肯定。

He also explores the causes of the dwindling honeybee population and the loss of the traditional family farms to the aggressive corporate giants, as well as the repression of EPA whistleblowers squashed by a code of silence and lack of access to information.

瓦连纳托斯还探索了蜜蜂群减少与传统家庭农场急剧减少的根源，认为侵略性公司巨头是罪魁，其他原因包括环境保护署压抑的环境、举报者被沉默以及有关信息被掩盖无法接触。

The authors tout healthier living through small, nontoxic family farms while delivering an alarming, comprehensive account of a “fatally compromised” EPA mission crippled by bad enforcement practices and numerous corrupting influences. (Apr.)

两位作者通过不使用毒性农药的小规模家庭农场的实力宣传健康的生活方式，同时揭露遭到惊人、全面“致命的损害”的环境保护署败坏的执法实践及其大量腐蚀性影响。

“We spend our lives living in a chemical soup,” writes Vallianatos (This Land Is Their Land: How Corporate Farms Threaten the World, 2006, etc.), who was a risk evaluator for the Environment Protection Agency from 1979 to 2004.

“我们终身生活在化学毒汤中”，瓦连纳托斯写道，他从1979年到2004年在美国环境保护署（EPA）担任风险评估科学家工作，著有《这个土地是他们的土地：工业化公司农场如何威胁世界》（2006）等著作。

With Jenkins (Journalism/Univ. of Delaware; What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World, 2011), he excoriates the agency for routinely yielding to outside pressure in regulating pesticides and other environmental pollutants.

与詹金斯一起谴责美国环境保护署在杀虫剂和其他环境污染物监管中不断屈服外界压力。（詹金斯：新闻学/特拉华大学；2011年出版《什么进入了我们体内：在毒性世界保持健康》）

Founded in 1970, the EPA inherited Department of Agriculture personnel who brought their enthusiasm for chemical farming. Dedicated scientists arrived, but their findings are never the last word. That belongs to their superiors, who weigh evidence of an agent’s toxicity against industry spokesmen and fierce opposition of administration and Congress to “burdensome government regulation” and “attacks on the farmer.”

1970年建立的环境保护署，继承了原先农业部热衷于化学农业的一批人员。也吸收了一批专业的科学家，但是他们发现的问题在决策中得不到体现。做出决策的是他们的上级，他们将揭露产业界发言人的化学制剂毒性的证据，以及政府管理部门与国会激烈的反对，视为“繁重的政府监管”与“对农民的攻击”。

The authors recite a depressing litany of poisons approved despite damning, inadequate or fraudulent testing—and often no testing at all.

作者列举一系列令人沮丧的实际是毒药的化学品尽管遭到咒骂依然获得环境保护署批准，对它们的试验不仅不足或进行了欺骗性的试验 -- 甚至往往根本没有进行任何测试。

EPA whistle-blowers, always portrayed as heroes, are usually ignored, demoted or fired.

美国环境保护署的举报者，往往被民众描绘为英雄，通常遭到忽略、降职或解职。

Although President Ronald Reagan’s effort to abolish the EPA failed, he weakened it dramatically. Abolition remains the goal of many Republicans, while Democrats oppose this plan.

尽管罗纳德·里根总统废止环境保护署的努力遭到失败，他依然严重削弱了它。废止环境保护署始终成为许多共和党人的目标，民主党人则反对这样的计划。

However, Democratic presidents, Barack Obama included, have proven a disappointment. Sadly, a minority of environmentalists excepted, Americans rarely pester their representatives about this subject or contribute to their campaigns. Agribusinesses and chemical manufacturers do both.

然而，民主党的总统，包括巴拉克·奥巴马，一直表明对环境保护署的不满。不幸的是，除了少数环保主义者之外，美国人很少纠缠他们的议会代表对这个主题或他们推动环境保护的运动予以重视。

Even an impartial EPA official—rare in this damning indictment—hears mostly one side of an argument.

甚至一位公正负责任的环境保护署官员在绝大部分情况下只能听到争议事件单方面的意见 -- 强烈控诉中这极为罕见。

In the obligatory how-to-fix-it conclusion, Vallianatos and Jenkins suggest that the EPA should be run like the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Reserve—by experts, not political appointees. This is not likely.

探讨如何解决问题的结论章节中瓦连纳托斯与詹金斯提议，美国环境保护署应当像食品药物管理署与联邦储备银行那样运行 -- 由专家，而非政治性指派者管理。尽管这不大可能实现。

Readers of this overheated but often on-the-mark polemic will conclude that the safest tactic is organic food and a fly swatter.

这场过热但往往有的放矢论证的读者们会结论，最安全的策略是有机食品和准备一个苍蝇拍。