Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health

This hard-hitting expose blows the lid off of everything you thought you knew about Big Pharma and Big Food. What goes on behind the scenes in these industries is more suspicious, more devious, more disreputable than you could have ever imagined. Rosenberg's message is clear: the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries are tainting public health through marketing disguised as medical education and research, aggressive lobbying, and high-level conflicts of interest. If you're concerned about the safety of the drugs you take and the food you eat, you owe it to yourself to read this important book.Having gained the trust of more than twenty doctors, researchers, and experts who were willing to come forward and finally tell all, reporter and editorial cartoonist Rosenberg presents us with her shocking findings. Explosive material from whistle-blowers, scientists, unsealed lawsuits, and Big Pharma's and Big Food's own marketers exposes how these industries put profits before public safety and how the government puts the interests of business before the welfare of consumers, creating a double whammy that "pimps" the public health. What Rosenberg reveals about government complicity, regulatory food- and drug-safety lapses, and legislative injustices will both shock and appall.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 04/24/2012
ISBN: 9781616145934
Pages: 367
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.41w x 1.27d

Review Citations: Library Journal 03/15/2012 pg. 128
Shelf Awareness 05/04/2012
Library Journal 03/15/2013 pg. 121