Good Clean Food: Shopping Smart to Avoid GMOs, rBGH, and Products That May Cause Cancer and Other Diseases

Factory farming in the United States over the last half-century has evolved to do what large corporations do best: make their products available to the public at the lowest possible prices. But at what cost? As food allergies, asthma, diabetes, weakened immune systems, and a host of other disorders and illnesses reach epidemic proportions in American children, scientific evidence increasingly points to the milk and meat that we consume. In this exposé of the U.S. agricultural and food industry complex, public health crusader Samuel Epstein, MD, elucidates the dangers inherent in the American production and consumption of chemical- and hormone-treated foods, and the political machinery behind it. Epstein indicts mega-corporations like Monsanto, Carville, and Hormel, as well as the Food and Drug Administration for its reckless disregard for public health concerns. From stimulating milk production through rBGH injections-the United States is the only developed nation where human consumption of milk from cows given an artificial growth hormone is legal-to confining large numbers of animals in small spaces, Epstein sheds light both on the common practices that endanger our health and on our government's failure to protect us. His findings and insights make this a must-read for informed consumers.

Samuel Epstein, MD is an internationally recognized authority on avoidable causes of cancer. The author of more than twenty books and 270 peer-reviewed articles, he has served as president of the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health as well as the Rachel Carson Council, professor emeritus of environmental and occupational medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, and chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Beth Leibson is a freelance writer and editor for health-related publications. She is the author of I’m Too Young to Have Breast Cancer!, which tells the stories of sixteen women under forty facing diagnosis, treatment, and life after the disease. She holds a master’s in public policy from Duke University and a master’s of fine arts in creative writing from Emerson College. She lives with her children in New York City.

Gary Null, PhD,is an internationally renowned expert in the field of health and nutrition, the author of more than seventy books on healthy living, and the director of more than one hundred critically acclaimed full-feature documentaries. He is the host of The Gary Null Show, the country’s longest-running nationally syndicated health radio talk show. He lives in New York City.