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Chelsea Green Publishing
May 2010
ISBN 978-1603582568
POISONED FOR PROFIT is an updated and expanded version of POISONED PROFITS, first published in hard cover in 2008. It includes significant political, economic and scientific developments since then, an Afterword that discusses what those developments mean, and new resources for parents.
Table of Contents
Introduction
One INQUEST
The story of a town and its children, which could be any town in America.
Two INDICTMENT
Summarizes themes of the book.
Three VICTIMS
Why children, especially some children, are more vulnerable than adults, and how toxics can work their harm from conception on.
Four EVIDENCE
Tracking the rise in childhood illnesses side by side with the rising assault by poisonous substances, and the evidence linking one to the other; missing evidence; the costs of childhood illnesses.
Five SCENE OF THE CRIME
Where the toxics lurk within a child’s home and throughout the day.
Six FORENSICS
How science connects toxics and illness, with a special look at the debate over genes and the environment and an overview of the new scientific revolution.
Seven PERPETRATORS
Points at some of the nation’s companies that knowingly polluted, and critiques the market system supporting these actions.
Eight CO-CONSPIRATORS
Federal and state government that enable the polluters.
Nine WITNESSES FOR THE DEFENSE
The new industry of scientists-for hire, product defense companies, public relations ploys, corporate defense lawyers, and research institutes that defend toxic assaults.
Ten POSSE COMITATUS
The growing movement among parents, physicians, community activists, nonprofit research groups, and scientists to clean up children’s environment.
Eleven VALUES
Examines the fit between American values and today’s environmental crimes, among the religious institutions, including the religious right, and among all of us.
Twelve JUSTICE
First do no harm, as parents, as citizens, as industry; then change chemistry, economics, politics and ourselves as citizens of a more just nation.