Consider me the choir!

From a blog post of Outside Magazine (2011):

Sometime around World War II, synthetics exploded into our everyday lives. By some estimates, these materials—plasticizers, dyes, pesticides—have increased by a shocking 8,200 percent in the last quarter century. The upshot of that, of course, has been improved agriculture, economic wealth, and an abundance of cheap materials like Tupperware and Gore-Tex. The downside? According to McKay Jenkins, author ofWhat's Gotten Into Us?: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World (Random House; $26), it's scarier than you think.