One of my treasured books from the 1930s is called "100,000,000 Guinea Pigs", written by a pair of consumer protection advocates named Arthur Kallet and F.J. Schlink. The book, born of a crusade to end unregulated use of industrial chemicals, is a wonderful mixture of painstaking research and angry invective.
"Let your voice be heard loudly and often against indifference, ignorance and avarice," the authors wrote in my 1935 edition (the ninth printing of the book.) "In adulteration and misrepresentation lurks a menace to your health that ought no longer be tolerated."
The 100,000,000 million…
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