"Brilliant... Every parent in America owes a debt of gratitude to Philip and Alice Shabecoff. [Poisoned for Profit] should be high on the ...President's reading list." ---Barry Commoner<BR><BR>"Powerful reporting backing powerful conclusions---it will make those of us with kids shudder, but hopefully it will also make us get out of our chairs and engage in the politics necessary to protect the future."---Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and The End of Nature<BR><BR>"Painstakingly researched and incontrovertible ... This should become an elemental text for all of us who wish to protect ourselves, and should be required reading for those who claim to be public servants."---Peter Matthiessen, author of the Snow Leopard<BR><BR>"Into an arena filled with confusing claims and counterclaims, Philip and Alice Shabecoff have now brought their remarkable journalistic skills, providing us with clear-headed, accurate assessment of the toxic threat to America's children ... A highly readable indictment so powerful it may finally force action. We have needed this book..."---James Gustave Speth, author of the Bridge at the End of the World<BR><BR>In a groundbreaking investigation, two veteran journalists definitively show how, why, and where industrial toxins are causing an explosion of birth defects, cancer, asthma, and other serious illnesses in American children. Philip and Alice Shabecoff follow the trail from corporate coffers through highly paid Washington lobbyists, into the laboratories of scientists-for-hire, to the offices of politicians responsible for regulation, and right back to our homes and schools---which are built, stocked, and "cleaned" with deadly toxics. Poisoned for Profit not only brings readers into the lives of children, families, and communities beset by environmental poisons, it also poses solutions to eradicate this crime, and offers parents a practical guide to protecting their children from harm.