”Likening our wanton culinary habits… to the dangers of promiscuous sex, Waltner-Toews explores the gamut of risks associated with food-borne disease, from acute… to chronic… as outcomes of a greedy industry happy to enable our undisciplined appetites. In the process of satisfying those appetites, we’re ingesting a host of known and unknown natural and manmade toxins, many of which also jeopardize the earth.”

“The epidemiologist-veterinarian combines solid science and a light touch to describe the bacteria, viruses and parasites that have entered our food supply, and how new diseases and epidemics have emerged.”