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Title: Pick Your Poison

Subtitle: How Our Mad Dash to Chemical Utopia is Making Lab Rats of Us All

Author: Monona Rossol

Narrator: Christine Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-12

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Publisher's Summary:

How the chemicals in everyday products are killing us - and what the government is not doing about it...

Did you know that "nontoxic" usually means "never tested"? Or that many green cleaners are good for the environment but terrible for you? Chemist and activist Monona Rossol goes from under your sink to the halls of the powerful, tracing Americas love affair with chemicals that kill, explaining how much worse the problem has gotten in the last decade. Shocking and appalling and completely reckless - thats how she describes the current prevalence of harmful chemicals in our everyday lives.

Scientists have started linking our increased rates of cancer, autism, obesity, and asthma (among others) to chemical exposure and Rossol points the finger directly at the companies and executives making millions of dollars by polluting our environment and introducing toxic chemicals into our bodies. She chronicles how everyday toxins get into our bodies and accumulate over time and provides us with inspiration to make changes at the checkout lines.

She also explains that Americans are not nearly as well protected by our government as we might think we are. Unlike the European Union, the United States allows chemical companies to produce toxins for use in U.S. consumer products with little to no oversight.

While her tone is wry and entertaining, shes also well informed, and her fact-filled treatise makes for absolutely terrifying reading.

If youre alarmed by the health risks of the many hazardous chemicals we encounter at home, work, and school, dont get frightened, get informed. Read Pick Your Poison to learn the facts and find out what you can do about the daily onslaught of toxins that are making lab rats of us all.

Members Reviews:

Pick Your Poison by Monona Rossol

Pick Your Poison is a remarkable, fascinating and sobering read. It offers invaluable information for the full spectrum of readers - from layperson to the scientific expert. It is a "must read" for people seeking edification on the inundation of toxic chemicals and substances to themselves and their precious children's bodies. It also offers reasonable suggestions on how to proactively tackle and manage this overwhelming scenario. Monona Rossol brilliantly presents a vast array of complicated subjects in a clear, understandable fashion that is based upon her own internalized understanding of deep, complex scientific issues and extensive experience working in the field to assist others in creating a safer environment. Ms. Rossol has herself made a tremendous impact during her life in battling this toxic soup. This offers hope and inspiration to the rest of us to coalesce and work towards similar goals rather than feel totally alone, helpless and beaten by the greed of big business! As Monona Rossol says: "We at least need to try."

A well written and important book to read about what chemicals are in so many products and foods.

I enjoy reading this technical book on everyday and natural stated products and what they can do to the body.The author is very experienced and extremely well educated on the subject. I have not finished this book yet. I look forward reading a few pages each morning. I like to read a book twice to gather information that I didn't catch with the first reading. I think its' an important subject.