Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick

"An enlightening and deeply disturbing account" of the dangerous chemicals that have infiltrated our food, by the Rachel Carson Prize-winning journalist (Booklist).

Our Daily Poison is "a gripping and urgent book" for anyone concerned about democracy, corporate power, or public health (Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved). In it, award-winning journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin travels across North America, Europe, and Asia to document the shocking array of chemicals we encounter in our daily lives--from the pesticides that blanket our crops to the additives and plastics that contaminate our food--and their effects on our health over time.

Following the trail of the synthetic molecules in our environment and our food, Robin traces the ugly history of industrial chemical production, as well as the shoddy regulatory system for chemical products that still operates today. Using scientific studies, expert testimony, and interviews with farmworkers suffering from acute chronic poisoning, Robin demonstrates how corporate interests--and our own ignorance--may be costing us our lives.

"What Rachel Carson's groundbreaking Silent Spring did for the environmental movement, Robin is doing for awareness of toxins in the food chain." --Publishers Weekly

"This may be one of the most important books of the year." --Kirkus Reviews

"Full of facts, stories, and wisdom." --The Huffington Post

Author: Marie-Monique Robin
Publisher: New Press
Published: 12/09/2014
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781595589095


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/29/2014
Library Journal 10/15/2014 pg. 118
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2014
Booklist 11/01/2014 pg. 5

About the Author
Marie-Monique Robin is an award-winning French journalist and filmmaker. She received the 1995 Albert Londres Prize, awarded to investigative journalists in France. She is the director and producer of over thirty documentaries and investigative reports filmed in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. She lives outside Paris. Allison Schein and Lara Vergnaud hold Master's degrees in French-English Literary Translation from New York University. Both translators live in New York City.