Toxic Soup: a documentary WITH ATTITUDE
To highlight some of the USA’s lesser known yet equally serious environmental problems, we went all out — with aerial footage, spy cameras, and a soundtrack featuring music by Ireland’s Mark Geary, Boston’s Never Got Caught and California hip-hop artist Rosevelt. To match our soundtrack we’ve got visual FX and animation by stop-motion artist Eric Leiser and Dreamworks animator Jason Brubaker.
Director Rory Owen Delaney talks "Toxic Soup" with Bill Clinton.
Every day in America a total of 42 billion pounds of chemicals are produced or imported for commercial and industrial uses. Of that, over 62,000 chemicals were “grandfathered” into commerce as part of the Toxic Substances Control Act without testing their impact on public health or the environment.
Currently, the government must prove that a chemical is harmful before it can be withdrawn from the market, a costly and time-consuming process that the EPA bears alone.
“Consequently, the EPA has used its authority to require testing for fewer than 200 of the 62,000 chemicals in commerce,” reports John Stephenson of the Government Accountability Office.
The United Steel Workers protest outside the DuPont shareholders meeting.
Producer Wade Smith and Director Rory Owen Delaney on the red carpet at the world premiere of "Toxic Soup" at the 2010 Atlanta Film Festival.
