Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves

by Andrew Szasz

Book Overview

What could be wrong with bottled water and sunscreen?

Many Americans today rightly fear that they are constantly exposed to dangerous toxins in their immediate environment: tap water is contaminated with chemicals; foods contain pesticide residues, hormones, and antibiotics; even the air we breathe, outside and indoors, carries invisible poisons. Yet we have responded not by pushing for governmental regulation, but instead...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816635099
• ISBN13: 9780816635092
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"