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.
After being round attacked with Diet for a Poisoned Planet, I learned something quite fascinating. Between 1990and 1995, the time between my first and second book, the world changed. People believed that toxic chemicals were cause widespread harm. We still didn’t have all of the evidence we wanted, but the people were smart enough to see the relevance of the science to their own lives. This time, I just wanted to empower individuals to make change in the marketplace, a move that consumer advocate Ralph Nader called “an end run around government” when we held a press conference together with my late coauthor Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., whose own work contributed to vast public education.
The shopping charts in Safe Shopper’s Bible were innovative and revolutionary at a time when there was so much darkness, and no one knew what they were buying or being exposed to.
People needed this information and responded. The last time I checked Safe Shopper’s Bible has gone through twenty-three printings so far and still going….
THE SAFE SHOPPER’S BIBLE
SAFE TRIP TO EDEN
America is oil crazy. We have the power to end this addiction.
The climate is heating up. We have the power to slow global warming.
Toxic chemicals threaten our health. Yet, we can take steps to protect ourselves.
Shopping to save the planet is part of the new activism.