Poisoned for Profit by Philip and Alice Shabecoff, 2010
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 8:05PM Subtitle: 
How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010
Originally published by Random House in 2008 as Poisoned Profits
If you aren’t alarmed yet by the number of American children who are chronically ill – suffering from cognitive or behavioral problems, cancer, asthma, birth defects and other ailments (are we talking about your own child, grandchild or student?) then this book will be your wake up call. As the environment gets more polluted by toxic waste sites, pesticides, industry and power plants, and dangerous substances in our food, cleaning materials and cosmetics, more children and their families are suffering. I heard Alice speak about the subject at a presentation she made in San Francisco and I just had to get the book (yes, my copy is autographed).
The very well written book is a thorough investigation of the toxic threat to children in America. A lot of information, a lot of sensibility, interviews with the right people (more than 170 of them).
What you also will find in this book is a call to action (with specific suggestions) and a lot of resources that you can use to minimize the exposure to toxins that your children (and you) may be suffering from.
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