New Book - Poisoned Profits - The toxic Assault on Our Children

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The Environmental Assault

We and our children are exposed to toxins invisibly, stealthily, without

our knowledge. The U.S. now makes or imports 42 billion pounds of chemicals

per day (not even counting pesticides, drugs, food additives or polymers).

 

 

Causing Harm

POISONED PROFITS, based on more than five years of investigative research

and reporting, reveals the cumulative scientific evidence connecting the

massive increase in environmental poisons to the epidemic of autism and ADHD,

birth defects, asthma, and cancer among our nation´s children.

 

 

The Manufacturers and Their Defense Team

The authors conclude that the poisoning of the environment is as grave a

threat to the future as any problem confronting our nation. Why?

Corporations control the system, molding laws to their liking. The book shines a

light

on the motives and means of corporate-paid lawyers, **product defense**

companies, fake grassroots groups, research centers and scientists.

 

 

The Victims

POISONED PROFITS, cast as a crime story, relates what happens to the

victims-the families and communities polluted by different toxic substances-by

pesticides, nuclear waste, industrial chemicals, air pollutants. Here are

the stories of Dickson, Tennessee, where an extraordinary number of 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 a petrochemical plant contracted cancer that it was nicknamed **Leukemia

High** ; and a small brother and sister in Indiana who, exposed to

pesticides, slipped into severe retardation.

 

 

Genes + The Environment

In layman´s language, the book explains how genes and the environment act

upon each other, how mental and behavioral illnesses can be

environmentally-triggered, affecting both the body and mind. And it explains the

ways in

which the fetus and young child are much more vulnerable than adults. Our

nation picks up the tab for these illnesses-POISONED PROFITS gives the dollar

figures for reduced productivity on one hand, the staggering cost of care

for sick children on the other.

 

 

Solutions

Instead of fighting against disability and disease with cures, a

never-ending struggle, the authors affirm that we now have the knowledge to

prevent

harm and they describe the solutions. POISONED PROFITS demonstrates how

people are fighting back, whether through grassroots parents´ groups, the rise

of *ecotheology* or the new **green chemistry** that replaces bad elements

with harmless ones. The Shabecoffs also include a guide for parents on how

to reduce toxic risks to their children in their everyday lives.

 

 

POISONED PROFITS was researched and written with support from the Ford, V.

Kann Rasmussen, Heinz Family and Rockefeller foundations, under the

sponsorship of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. Physicians

for Social Responsibility and the Institute for Children*s Environmental

Health are current sponsors. Some of the nation*s leading environmental health

scientists served as advisors to the book. Available wherever books are

sold, or through _www.poisonedprofits.com_ (http://www.poisonedprofits.com/) .

 

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