Born With a Junk Food Deficiency ─ How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health

In this book for general readers, Rosenberg, a journalist and editorial cartoonist whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Huffington Post, exposes dangerous practices, corruption, and outright lying in the pharmaceutical and food industries. She proves that US law and federal policies prioritize big business over public health in our overfed yet undernourished country, and decries Big Pharma's plans to drug toddlers with mood stabilizers and Big Agri's efforts to push food waste onto the cafeteria trays of school children. The book is illustrated with original b&w cartoons by the author. There is no subject index. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Martha Rosenberg 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. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Arizona Republic, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Consumers Digest. In addition, she is a regular health columnist on many websites including the Huffington Post, AlterNet, CounterPunch and Foodconsumer. She is also the editorial cartoonist at the Evanston Roundtable.