By Jack Denton Scott
Summary: In this 1956 article from the popular magazine American Mercury, Scott warns the public of the toxic stew that accompanies each bite of the modern diet. DDT and DES lead the list of hundreds of chemicals contaminating America's food supply, either coming from the farm or added by food processors. With regulation of these chemicals admittedly lax (see "The Peril on Your Food Shelf" by congressman James Delaney, chairman of the House Committee to Investigate the Use of Chemicals in Food Products during the 1950s), the American public had become one giant guinea pig colony for the alliance between the chemical and food industries. Articles like these led to the popular revolt in the 1960s and 70s against commercially grown foods and the phony health experts paid by the food industry to assure America that it was the best-fed nation in the world with the safest food supply. From American Mercury. Reprint 89, 1956.
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