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

Martha Rosenberg
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April 24, 2012
Are you suspicious of Big Food and Big Pharma? In this hard-hitting expose, leading national muckraker Martha Rosenberg blows the lid off of everything you thought you knew about these gigantic industries. What's going on behind the scenes is more suspicious, more devious, more disreputable than you could ever have imagined.

Rosenberg has gained the trust of more than twenty doctors, researchers, and experts who were willing to come forward and finally tell all. Born with a Junk Food Deficiency includes explosive interviews with a number of military families whose loved ones fell victim to suicides by antidepressants. There are also behind-the-scenes looks at farms and slaughterhouses and interviews with farm workers that will profoundly affect food consumers. What the author reveals about government complicity, regulatory food and drug safety lapses, and legislative injustices will shock and appall readers.

The 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 food you eat and the drugs you take, you owe it to yourself to read this important book.


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"Martha Rosenberg's Born with a Junk Food Deficiency is the perfect treatment for the epidemic of Common Sense Deficiency sweeping America today. Reading this will cause your eyes to pop with amazement and jaw to drop with astonishment and might also save your sanity and your life." --David Healy, professor of psychiatry, Cardiff University, author of Pharmageddon and Let them Eat Prozac

"There's a story in this book about a pig that is so delectable, it can't be eaten all at once. While this book may make you question eating any pig ever again, it, too, is so rich that it can't be digested in one gulp. We all know about junk food, but what's in 'Junk Food' is bound to surprise you. A wonderful weapon in the arsenal against eating muck disguised as food." --Ingrid Newkirk, president, PETA

"Born With a Junk Food Deficiency is a savage indictment of the the Pharmaceutical-Industrial-Complex, those corporate pushers who have hooked much of the American population on a daily regimen of popping dangerous designer pills, often to treat faux ailments manufactured by the drug makers themselves. More ruthless than any Mexican cartel, the prescription drug industry has corrupted our political institutions, infiltrated our regulatory agencies and bribed the medical establishment to act as dispensers of its high-priced dope, all in the obscene pursuit of mega-profits, consequences be damned. This urgent book should serve as a warning label for an industry that poses a grave threat to the public health." --Jeffrey St. Clair, author, Born Under a Bad Sky, coeditor, CounterPunch

About the Author

Martha Rosenberg (Evanston, IL) is a freelance writer and editorial cartoonist. She has been a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Providence Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. She has also contributed to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Arizona Republic, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Consumers Digest. In addition, she is a regular health columnist on the Huffington Post, AlterNet, CounterPunch, BuzzFlash, Foodconsumer, NewsBlaze, YubaNet, Scoop, and the Epoch Times.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 373 pages
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books; 1 edition (April 24, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1616145935
  • ISBN-13: 978-1616145934
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #461,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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MARTHA ROSENBERG (Evanston, IL) is a freelance writer and editorial cartoonist. She has been a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Providence Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. She has also contributed to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Arizona Republic, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Consumers Digest. In addition, she is a regular health columnist on the Huffington Post, AlterNet, CounterPunch, BuzzFlash, Foodconsumer, NewsBlaze, YubaNet, Scoop, and the Epoch Times.

Customer Reviews

I urge you to read this book. Barbara Roberts  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
This book is very informative and should be read by everyone. TED L  |  1 reviewer made a similar statement
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Gagging on junk. June 29, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this book to see if it had anything new to say about the growing scandal of psychiatric drug misuse. It doesn't, but what it does say is put in context, so I kept reading. After a few chapters, I was becoming annoyed by the gushy, frothy prose with no attempt at objectivity but, after a few more, the sheer wealth of her information of wrong-doing had silenced any quibbles I had with her style. What she has to say is astounding, showing a vast knowledge of appalling and dangerous behavior by people who cynically manipulate the public perception of their activities while profiting from misfortune. More evidence, if any were needed, of how human greed could well be our undoing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mandatory reading for every mother May 3, 2012
By skater
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
As a cancer survivor, other and Piates studio owner, I both applaud and highly recommend Martha Rosenberg's "Born with a Junk Food Deficiency". In straight, fact supported language, Ms. Rosenberg's book exposes how the practices of big pharma, agri-business and the U.S. government jeopardize the health and welfare of Americans. This book should be mandatory reading for every mother endeavoring to nourish her children and for every health professional dedicated to the best interests of her clients. Finally a book that speaks the truth, stands up to the lobbyists, and digs deeper than corporate pockets.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Born with a Junk Food Defieciency May 1, 2012
By hswhite
Format:Hardcover
Martha has done a wonderful job of exposing the cover up that exist involving the durg companies and the federal government , expecially the DoD,VA and the FDA. Becareful of the drugs you take...they may kill you not help you.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars Junk Food Deficiency
I won't read any more of this book. I started with the last chapter because it is about genetically modified food, which I know lots about, so I can recognize propaganda, but this... Read more
Published 7 days ago by Charlie
5.0 out of 5 stars A spectacular book that exposes how we are manipulated to our great...
In the very beginning, Martha Rosenberg, explains step by step how the pharmaceutical industry "creates a disease,” markets the symptoms to the public, works with unscrupulous... Read more
Published 16 days ago by Elliot Fineman
5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING book
This book is an expose of how the pharmaceutical industry has co-opted the processed food industry and led to health disasters. It is well researched and a remarkable work. Read more
Published 1 month ago by WatermelonTiger
5.0 out of 5 stars Survival is America.
This book is very informative and should be read by everyone. I had hoped that there would have been an index both of products and individuals for quick reference.
Published 4 months ago by TED L
5.0 out of 5 stars More than Junk Food... Rx 's , too
This is more than junk foods, but Rx meds, anti depressants and affects on children, teens, and this is a necessary read due to the DSM V labeling normal behavior as abnormal. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Palmer F.
4.0 out of 5 stars Defining "junk" food.
More than a century after Upton Sinclair pioneered the food and drug expose, authors still beat its drum. Rosenberg aims at -- and hits -- both the head and stomach. "... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Inkspotswis
5.0 out of 5 stars A book everyone should read and keep!
Rarely does a book come across my desk that is so valuable and chock full of life saving information that I offer the author several interviews on my show at [...]. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Meria Heller
2.0 out of 5 stars Valuable message, but poorly written
It's with regret I give this book only 2 stars. Her basic message is correct--special interest money is damaging the public good. Read more
Published 9 months ago by J. Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars A Hard-Hitting Expose
This no holds barred look at the pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma) and agribusiness (Big Food) is a must read for anyone interested in staying healthy. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Barbara Roberts
5.0 out of 5 stars Right On!
As a mother whose child was killed by Zyprexa, I found it difficult yet rewarding to read this book. Ms. Read more
Published 11 months ago by E. Bleecker Liversidge
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