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

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today on Change Agents, Andy Stumpf sits down with journalist Alden Wicker for a conversation about the link between our clothes, toxic chemicals, and your health. Alden is a journalist and author who has written investigative pieces for outlets including Wired, The New York Times, Inc. Magazine, Popular Science, Craftsmanship Quarterly, Vox and others. Her reporting specializes in issues in the fashion industry and her latest book is called To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick – and How We Can Fight Back. The book is a startling investigation into how chemicals and materials used by many clothing brands can actually make the people who wear them very sick. She is also the founder of a website called EcoCult, that tracks and reports on sustainable fashion. SPONSOR: Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife Company. Use CODE "CHANGEAGENTS10" for 10% off your first order at https://www.montanaknifecompany.com/ MTNTOUGHGo to https://mtntough.com and enter code CHANGEAGENTS to receive 40% OFF - a savings of about $100 your MTNTOUGH+ annual subscription. Shop IRONCLAD Apparel: https://shop.thisisironclad.com/ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Visit https://www.thisisironclad.com to learn more.Be sure to subscribe to @thisisironclad on YouTube and major social platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	Everybody is so siloed that it took someone like me to interview the researchers over here, the experts over here, the designers who have gotten sick from just designing and touching the clothing,
1:12.9	the garment workers, to pull it all together into one view
1:18.4	and say, we have a problem here.
1:23.6	How can I help?
1:24.6	How can I be useful in ending needless suffering?
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