The peanut butter scare, the pistachio scare, the ground beef scare … People seem awfully scared of food these days. Yet a potentially even more alarming food scare has been building for years, rarely reported and often dismissed as too “radical” to be true: Is there a link between the dramatic rise in childhood allergies and our increasingly “engineered” approach to food production?
I first met O’Brien last year when I was researching an article on the effects of chemical exposures on children. Many might describe her as “savvy, “whip-smart” or a “firecracker”; I think those terms just might be a polite understatement. O’Brien began investigating the truth about what’s in America’s food supply after her youngest daughter nearly died from an allergic reaction to eggs.
I found it telling that while O’Brien has been hailed in the media as “the Erin Brokovich of food,” the real Erin Brokovich has actually weighed in: “You don’t have to be a doctor or a scientist to look into whether our food supply is safe, and Robyn O’Brien’s courageous pursuit of The Unhealthy Truth is an example of how we can all do our parts to protect the health of our families.”
Read more about The Unhealthy Truth at Super Eco.
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June 10, 2009 at 1:12 am
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