DIET FOR A POISONED PLANET

My first book that established me as a “domestic … food terrorist.” But it is all true and still shocking today. Like Silent Spring, Diet for a Poisoned Planet took on an entire industry. I think there are fewer than a dozen works that should be classified as modern classics, and I truly believe that Diet for a Poisoned Planet qualifies as one of them.

Now reissued in a new millennium edition, the work's in-depth look at the contaminants in individual food items is updated with the latest Total Diet Study findings. A motivating book, Diet for a Poisoned Planet changes people viscerally. I share my own story of fishing in the Santa Monica Bay as a child and how I went on to testify before Congress as an expert witness on the contamination of fisher men and women eating seafood from the local waters by the chemical toxins in their catch. My study was the first on the West Coast to document how what we dump in the sea becomes embedded in our own tissues. I had just finished serving two and a half years as a member of a National Academy of Sciences committee to advise Congress on seafood safety legislation. But I go into all foods and educate about the safe and the dangerous, information that’s highly valuable today in its new millennium edition.