If you think chemical

[undergroundpanther]

Pollutants do not effect us, influence our mental health(1 in 4 people have had a mental illness now bad enough to seek help),our ability to cope and solve problems,crime rates,addictions, and our ability deal with stress and live healthy lives or even be at a decent body weight(fat may be linked to Inflammation due to toxins in the body, maybe one reason why diets don't work)..
All the chemical companies are guilty of slowly poisoning us polluting our environment,reducing our quality of life making us sick for profit.And now it begins before Birth..Bush is not pro life.Never was.

http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/abstract/112/12/1821

Think again


"If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb," Slaughter, a Democrat, said.

Cord blood reflects what the mother passes to the baby through the placenta.

"Of the 287 chemicals we detected in umbilical cord blood, we know that 180 cause cancer in humans or animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests," the report said.

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8239

[PA Mamma]

1. Oh Crap !!!

Scary Scary Scary

Wonder where I can get my breastmilk tested?

But hey now I can say, "I'm not fat, I'm just inflamed!"
(Humor sometimes helps me cope)

Yeah, we're screwed.

[Erika]

2. The Bushies will never say a word

Money is more important than their legacy.

[Maple]

3. And yet....and yet....

people are living longer healthier lives than ever before in history.

Use an entire saltshaker with this stuff folks.

[undergroundpanther]

4. Living longer and healthier my ass

Living longer and hurting more and paying more and working longerand saying nothing about how you feel because you gotta keep going or else.

our quality of life sucks.

Keepinfg a body alive is not the samne thing as living.

We got more cancer cases and cancer survivors with body parts missing..we got lead poisoning ,autism rates through the roof..,diseases, allergies,you have a higher risk of foodborne illness now.How many times a year do you get sick from food? We live longer,but we can't eat peanuts lest we die, can't go outside lest we get a sinus headache from pollen our bodies shouldn't be so sensitive to,we can't eat a rare steak or dare eat a raw or undercooked egg.More transgender people are around than ever before and we got hormone disruptors mutating frog gonads how long until we start mutating..how high does the concentrations got to get ? We got girls starting periods at age 8!!..It's not due to a healthy diet this change in us..

Everythings contaminated including US.

http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/

[Maple]

5. Yeah we are

and our quality of life is fantastic.

Do stop scaring yourself to death over nothing.

Things were much worse centuries ago.

We are doing fine, relax.

[undergroundpanther]

9. Denial isn't a river in egypt

YOU might feel good,and can handle the idea of all these untested chemicals in your ainr water ect.but some people are feeling it. I feel crappy alot and the air quality where I live is like the third worst air quality in the US..
So many people I know are sick, got cancer or some other problem that's tormenting them..It's really sad.

[Maple]

10. No, that would be the Nile

and if you were a cave man you'd be dead at 20.

A Roman..dead at 50

So stop being silly.

[undergroundpanther]

16. Hah

And you assume because ancient people had no technology they died young..They did in ROME and civilized times,In roman times civilization had just begun to change the environment.There is evidence of pollution wherever there is"civilization"
Alot of people died in the roman times for wars infanticide and abuses..
I guess you are not counting them in comparison to illness deaths.

Howe many romans had diabetes or cancer or heart disease?

How many cases of heart disease were there 100 years ago,or 50 years ago compared to now?

Why do we have an obesity epidemic now..could it be the pollution from industrial age and the chemical industry has saturated our environment to help create all these new big health problems..Maybe a certain level of toxicity had to be reached in the environment to see the results of the poisoning emerge in large scale..How much more toxic does it have to get before you consider it's not a scare tactic ?

I guess you think global warming is bullshit too.
And that nuclear waste is good .



But there is some evidence that contradicts your assumptions that primitive equals short life, in tribal /hunter gatherer times before we lived in unsanitary crowded cities drinking water with waste in it..

[donsu]

23. Maple, get out of your paperbag and look around

nt

[KT2000]

8. Sorry but that is incorrect

It is likely that such a conclusion is based upon observing the older generation. The generation born post WWII has been subjected to a chemical revolution that currently boasts 70,000 unadequately tested chemicals being dumped into the air, water and soil of this planet. It is having an effect on fetal development and overall health of the population.

Do you realize that a doctor in his 50's was taught that diabetes was a rare illness? Now it is epidemic, in children too. Rates of autoimmune illnesses are increasing too.
If we were graded on children's health and development - we would fail! Kids are plagued with asthma, allergies, increasing cancer rates and mental deficits.

The model we should probably be looking at for HEALTHY life expectancy are the plants and animals: Extinctions and impaired immune systems resulting in chronic illness and early death.

Time to wake up and smell the coffee.

[Maple]

12. Mmm nooooo

We are living longer healthier lives than any generation in history

And I'm not talking about something as recent as WWII

Smell yer own coffee. We are doing just fine

[PA Mamma]

19. You know...

there is being alarmist.
And then there is being stupid.

You remind me of my Grandma who won’t recycle because it will put can manufacturers out of work.

[DanCa]

6. wow maybe thats why hes so anti science

He's covering his tracks with religion. I wonder how many people within his base have actually looked thru a microscope.

[undergroundpanther]

11. Remember

Tort Reform? and the gifts for chemical companies big pharmacy slipped into the patriot act and other bills passed in the dead of night?

He's changing the law in case god doesn't fixit.

[DanCa]

15. is that why he tried five different churches

So that he'd slip thier tennets into laws? or was it because he didn't like the taste of the communion wine.

[Maple]

7. Our poster

has disabled his profile.

Nuff said.

[sweetheart]

13. Its because you are a well-to-do canadian

Were you a poor american in an inner city slum, you'd be less flippant.

Its easy to sit around in your posh free-medical world, and look down
on your southern neighbor. Next time you move next to an american
chemical plant, let us know, to see if you'd be your life on your
words.

[Maple]

14. Um...who voted for all this?

Twasn't me.

However, Americans are still living longer than they ever did.

[undergroundpanther]

18. I disagree

And I didn't vote for this shit either.

[sweetheart]

21. Thats the problem

My vote has never ever ever been counted. I'm in a perpetual minority
, as much as a woman being raped by 2 men is in a democratic minority.
And i'm in the worst position. I am the abused citizen, abused by
evil criminals, and i am blamed for voting for those filthy dirtbags.

I'm charged with paying a lifetime of taxes, threatened with prisons that
i'm to pay for by my cannabis smoking religion, and doing customer
relations with foreign nationals who are angry with the 2 rapists.

[undergroundpanther]

17. Why is "maple"

whining I disabled my profile ,
what does that have to do with the topic I am bringing up?
And Maple it's the web ANYONE can lie in a profile.
Also why did you check my profuile frustrated you couldn't fill my inbox with flames?

I have been on DU for a looong time Ask Skinner.
how long have YOU been here maple?I never saw you here before..
Are you a freep infiltrating DU?
Are you just being a jerk to entertain yourself,
why not go back to the lounge..

And what if I begin to suspect your motives, right back,you have offered nothing to this conversation but flippant pooh poohing....
Do you work for Dupont?
Are you a lobbyist for Glaxco Wellcome?
Are you a Ceo of a pesticide Company?
Do tell..

Do you know what chemicals klike Corexit can do to people exposed to it? Do you know alot of household cleaners in America do NOT list the chemicals they are made of?

If not I suggest you wake up..

or shut up.

[earth mom]

22. Thank you-you hit the nail on the head with your post.

I agree with you 100%

Funny how poisoned that syrup-or is it kool aid-can be, ya know? :eyes:

[LaurenG]

20. Thanks for posting this

I have long thought that we eat, drink and breathe way too many chemicals. :hi: