Toxic Chemicals
"Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the people of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it." -Chief Seattle
Toxic Chemicals Headlines
- 03/04/10 - Dirty Secrets of Farmed Salmon
- 03/04/10 - 100 Percent of Fish in U.S. Streams Found Contaminated with Mercury
- 03/04/10 - Concern Over San Francisco 'Compost' Made From Sewage Sludge
- 03/03/10 - Poop to Hit Fan at San Francisco City Hall
- 03/03/10 - Sex-Changing Herbicide Makes Amphibians Sick, Too
- 03/02/10 - Our Flame Retardants - Ourselves
- 03/02/10 - 7 Companies You Can Trust to Use BPA-Free Cans
- 03/01/10 - Manure from Factory Farms becomes Unmanageable and Polluting
- 02/28/10 - Tracking a Rising Tide of Waste
- 02/28/10 - 'Pesticide Drift' Eluding Efforts To Combat It
- 02/25/10 - Farmers Fighting for Their Health: Taking on Chemical Companies and Transitioning to Sustainable Ag
- 02/24/10 - Bayer Pesticide Banned over Threat to Honeybees
- 02/21/10 - Authors Attempt 'Death By Rubber Duck'
- 02/18/10 - Son of Toxic Sludge: The Smell That Won’t Die
- 02/16/10 - Study: Salinas Valley House Dust Carries Pesticides
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The GNA Platform:
Press the politicians to support:
- A cost-efficient, publicly-funded, universal health care program with a preventive focus, a major emphasis on better nutrition, physical exercise, stress reduction, reduced exposure to toxins, and the use of complementary, natural medicine and practices.
- The recent "REACH" legislation in the European Union, whereby corporations are required to register and safety test all synthetic chemicals put into consumer products or released into the environment and demonstrate their safety, or else remove these chemicals from the market.
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Infobits
- "In the past 50 years more than 75,000 chemicals have been introduced into the environment. Today 300 synthetic chemicals are found in the bodies of humans. Even newborn babies have synthetic chemicals passed on from their mothers." - REACH (a program of the EU)
- Nationwide, air pollution causes 50,000 to 100,000 premature deaths per year.
- More than 7 million accidental poisonings occur each year, with more than 75% involving children under age 6!
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