I am reading Poisoned Profits, The Toxic Assault on our Children, by the Shabecoffs, which was an Amazon recommendation after I ordered Exposed, by Mark Shapiro.

You need to read both of these books.

Truly.

If I were rich, I’d buy them for you.

From the Poisoned Profits website:

From autism to cancer

With indisputable data, the Shabecoffs reveal that the children of baby boomers—the first to be raised in a truly “toxified world”—have higher rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer, autism and a frightening range of other neurological illnesses from ADHD to mental retardation, and other serious chronic illnesses compared to previous generations.

They reveal that one out of two pregnancies fails to come to term or results in a less than healthy child, that premature births and infertility are on the rise as this generation matures, while the ratio of male babies dwindles.

These children are victims of a (perhaps unwitting) crime; the perpetrators are the companies who manufacture and use poisonous products.

Environmental exposures from conception to early life can set a person´s cellular code for life and can cause illness at any time from childhood until old age. Parkinson´s and Alzheimer´s diseases and breast cancer are examples.

Covering up the evidence

Why does the toxic assault on our children´s environmental health continue?: because the evidence is routinely obscured by controversy deliberately generated by the companies that profit, abetted by government collusion, scientists-for-hire, lobbyists, lawyers and cynical public relations.

Poisons in the environment

From fetus to adulthood, in our homes, yards, schools, cars and buses, and playgrounds. the assault is everywhere: air pollution, water pollution, pesticides, mercury and lead, industrial solvents, food additives, artificial growth hormones, arsenic, synthetic hormones (bisphenol A and phthalates) in bottles and teething rings and other plastic products, radioactive pollutants in the water, and even rocket fuel in lettuce.

Solutions

POISONED PROFITS is in the end a book about hope and optimism. Now we know what is happening. These poisons are manmade; manufacturers can take them out of our children´s lives and make profits from safe products. Find here the policy changes to spur this shift.

Find here the solutions to reduce your child´s risk and to alter the system.

Powerful, unflinching, and eminently readable, POISONED PROFITS is a wake up call that is bound to inspire talk and force change.

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Basically, we need to all DEMAND the BAN of certain chemicals. We need to MOBILIZE as parents and join those organizations that try to get legislation passed to protect over ever sicker children. We need to ask EVERY cat we vote for WHERE they stand on toxic chemicals and we need to VOTE GREEN, with ever dollar we spend and everyone we vote for – even if they aren’t in our party.

Ever farthing you spend on rubbish plastic toys or chemical doused furniture or clothes, is money to the enemy. It feeds the beast that cares not if your child is at greater risk for allergies, asthma, autism or cancer.  It gets rich, our child gets sick.

I know it seems hysterical, crazy and dramatic – but the facts are there.

It’s scary and upsetting, I know. But we must educate eachother and take ACTION.

Or else….

Please see a list of groups you can join on the right under “Join the fight against toxic baby products”. You may need to scroll down a bit….

It’s for us all.