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Are Your Clothes Getting You Sick? (with Alden Wicker)

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

CHAPTER

Introduction

The speaker discusses the issue of toxic chemicals in clothing and the importance of considering their impact on short and long term health. They introduce Alden Wicker, a journalist and author specializing in investigative reporting on the fashion industry, who has written a book on toxic fashion and runs the website EcoCult. The chapter covers the presence of metals like arsenic, lead, mercury, and nickel in common clothing dyes, highlighting their link to health issues ranging from skin rashes to birth defects.

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