Pick Your Poison How Our Mad Dash to Chemical Utopia Is Making Lab Rats of Us All

Name: Pick Your Poison How Our Mad Dash to Chemical Utopia Is Making Lab Rats of Us All
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ISBN: 9780470550915

ISBN-10: 0470550910

ISBN-13: 9780470550915

Edition: 2011

Authors: Monona Rossol

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How the chemicals in everyday products are killing us-and what the government is not doing about it Did you know that "non-toxic" usually means "never tested"? Or that many green cleaners may be good for the environment, but terrible for you? Chemist and activist Monona Rossol goes from under your sink into the halls of the powerful, tracing America's love affair with chemicals that kill, explaining how much worse the problem has gotten in the last decade. Shocking and appalling and completely reckless--that's how she describes the current prevalence of harmful chemicals in our everyday lives. Scientist have started linking our increased rates for cancer, autism, obesity, and asthma (among…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 3/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



Your Body Is a Chemistry Experiment: Have We Given Ourselves Diabetes, Autism, and Cancer?



Dying for Your (Child's) Art: Why ï¿½Nontoxicï¿½ Doesn't Mean Not Toxic



Calling a Product Green Doesn't Make It Stop Being Poison: The Chemical Substitution Game



ï¿½All-Naturalï¿½ Doesn't Mean Safe, Either: Mother Nature Is Out to Get You



Why Not Just Use Soap? You versus the Environment



Of Wall Paint and Face Paint: How Labels Can Mislead You



You Have the Right to Know: How the MSDS Can Help You Protect Yourself (When No One Else Will)



Your Air Filter May Be Polluting Your Air: Understanding Chemical Exposure



Silver Socks Rocked by Toxic Shocker!: Our Weak Worker and Consumer Protection Laws



Chemicals Known to the State of California: A Political Action Plan



Don't Drive Yourself Crazy: Thirteen Reasonable Ways to Change Today


Acknowledgments



Detergent Additives



Evaluating the Material Safety Data Sheet



New York Disclosure Amendment


Notes


Index