Poisoned for Profit: How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill--With new information on what we can do

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2010-04-30
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1603582568
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In a landmark investigation that's been compared to Silent Spring, two veteran journalists definitively show how, why, and where industrial toxins are causing rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer, and other serious illnesses to soar in children. Philip and Alice Shabecoff reveal that the children of baby boomers-the first to be raised in a truly toxified world-are the first generation to be sicker and have shorter life expectancies than their parents. The culprits, they say, are the companies that profit from producing, using, and selling toxics.In piercing case histories, the authors bring readers to places like Dickson, Tennessee, where babies were born with cleft lips and palates after landfill chemicals seeped into the water, and Port Neches, Texas, where so many graduates of a high school near synthetic rubber and chemical plants contracted cancer that the school was nicknamed "Leukemia High."And they ask a razor-sharp question: Just why are we letting corporations commit these Download Poisoned for Profit for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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