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Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children | 
 enlarge | Authors: Philip Shabecoff, Alice Shabecoff
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 24347
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 1400064309
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.9298
EAN: 9781400064304
ASIN: 1400064309
Publication Date: August 12, 2008
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In this shocking and sobering book, two fearless journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. In the tradition of Silent Spring, Poisoned Profits is a landmark investigation, an eye-opening account of a country that prizes money over children’s health.
With indisputable data, Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff reveal that the children of baby boomers–the first to be raised in a truly “toxified” world–have higher rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer, autism, and other serious illnesses than previous generations. In piercing case histories, the authors identify the culprit as corporate pollution. Here are the stories of such places as 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.”
The danger to our children isn’t just in the outside world, though. The Shabecoffs provide evidence that our homes are now infested with everything from dangerous flame retardants in crib mattresses to harmful plastic softeners in teething rings to antibiotics and arsenic in chicken–additives that are absorbed by growing and physically vulnerable kids as well as by pregnant women. Compounding the problem are chemical corporations that sabotage investigations and regulations, a government that refuses to police these companies, and corporate-hired scientists who keep pertinent secrets massaged with skewed data of their own.
Poisoned Profits also demonstrates how people are fighting back, whether through grassroots parents’ groups putting pressure on politicians, the rise of “ecotheology” in the pulpits of formerly indifferent churches, or the new “green chemistry” being practiced in labs to replace bad elements with good. The Shabecoffs also include helpful tips on reducing risks to children in how they eat and play, and in how parents clean and maintain their homes.
Powerful, unflinching, and eminently readable, Poisoned Profits is a wake-up call that is bound to inspire talk and force change.
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Thoroughly researched book September 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this to be an absolutely excellent book explaining the chemicals in our everyday items, what testing (if any) was likely done on these chemicals, and how the government is being bought to allow these items to continue to be sold in the US. Makes me totally appalled. The back of the book has tons and tons of fabulous resources to follow up with your own investigation as well. I learned about the Superfund site in my neighborhood and now pray that they don't develop that area like they are talking about doing.
This book has really opened my eyes, and as a mother I want to do everything I can to protect my kids. Why use chemicals that could cause my girls cancer 20 yrs from now, when baking soda and vinegar work just as good? I see these commercials for all these products how dirt is bad and you need to spray these chemicals to get rid of the dirt. Ridiculous. I'm so glad I found this book because it really opened my eyes and makes me think about what I bring into the house.
Have a Drink of Trichloroethlene September 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
From your Mama's breasts to the water you drank today your system is being bombarded by chemicals and toxins. Forget about the 10 most wanted notorious hitler toxins like DDT or asbestos. Instead now the assaults are slow and innocuous. Dinnertime! Well give me some Orange Roughy and asparagus and a glass of cold milk. Sounds healthy? NOT! Dioxin in milk / Mercury in fish / pesticides in your veggies. . . . You're immersed in the workplace and home. Formaldehyde in dishwashing soap, hydrocarbs in all that plastic you touch constantly (like the computer right there in your face). 80,000 chemicals listed on the inventory of Toxic Substance Control Act.
And who is watching over all this STUFF? The companies that make all this STUFF! A self written self regulated commerce. All with the primary interest of their bottom line $$$$ in mind.
You know someone with cancer. Everyone knows someone with cancer. 73 million children in America suffer from cancer, asthma, birth defects, ADHD, autism, developmental delays.
This book extensively documents the evidence and conspirators. Then goes onto empower the reader with self awareness. Social responsibility falls into your hands (fists). Stand up and fight the commerce which is poisoning your children.
Read, Live Long and Prosper September 6, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Like family values? Planning to have children? Want your grandchildren to live long and prosper? Then buy and read this book. The Shabecoff's have produced a well researched and documented work that lifts the curtain on toxic waste and the effects on children. They show the political gamesmanship behind decisions that affect the health of children; the failure of corporations (with few exceptions) to act except in their own interests; and offer tangible alternatives in the appendices. The science is documented, the sources and listed, indexed, and readily accessible to the reader. The corporate ethics that value profit above life are clearly delineated. One could only wish that political platforms were so well crafted and acted upon. Please, read this book.
Well Researched September 2, 2008
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children, by Philip and Alice Shabecoff, examines the correlation between the rise of childhood illnesses and industrial and environmental pollution over the past half century.
The authors use their expertise--he as a reporter for The New York Times and she as a freelance journalist--to present solid evidence that industry is harming our environment and children. The amount of research that went into this book is staggering, but the book doesn't overwhelm; it is quite readable.
Companies like GE, Monsanto, Dow and DuPont are cited as perpetrators in the poisoning of the environment. The role of the government, including the EPA, in allowing corporations to pollute, is presented.
The reader will understandably want to reduce their child's risks of getting sick, and in Appendix A, there are a number of ways to reduce toxicity in the home. For those who want more information on how to make ones home eco-friendly to reduce the chances of illness, BETTER BASICS FOR THE HOME: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living]] offers non-toxic cleaning products and HARMONIOUS ENVIRONMENT:BEAUTIFY, DETOXIFY & ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOME & YOUR PLANET provides information for making the entire home toxic free.
This isn't an easy book to digest, but like SILENT SPRING, it is a must-read for the survival of future generations and the planet.
POISONED PROFITS HITS THE MARK! August 25, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Kudos to the Shabecoffs! Phil Shabecoff continues his distinguished career in science writing with this- his latest expose. Poisoned Profits hits the nail on the head. We are surrounded by hundreds to thousands of man made organic chemicals about which we know little to nothing. Business- as usual denies all. Wake up and smell the Bis-Phenols! I just ordered 50 copies for my environmental toxicology course!
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