Deborah Blum: Live at Politics and Prose - Бесплатное архивное аудио

Deborah Blum discusses her book, The Poison Squad, at Politics and Prose on 10/10/18.

When the Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906, it was called “Dr. Wiley’s Law,” in recognition of Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley (1844-1930), who, as chief chemist of the agriculture department, had engaged in a twenty-three-year battle for food safety and consumer protection. When Wiley began his campaign in 1883, food producers were knowingly using toxic chemicals to preserve foods; milk often contained formaldehyde and killed thousands of children each year in New York City alone. In this fascinating account of Gilded Age activism, Blum, director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT and Pulitzer recipient for work that led to her book The Monkey Wars, recounts how Wiley, assisted by a brave band of food-additive tasters, and figures including Upton Sinclair, Fannie Farmer, and Henry J. Heinz, took on big business and won.

https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781594205149