Today I woke up and went through my usual routine of shower, brushing my teeth and putting on cologne. But it was different this time, suddenly I felt as if all I was doing was hurting my body while performing these tasks that I have been used to my whole life. The video truly changes your perception of the things going on around you and how harmful chemical compounds exist in almost everything we use or come in contact with. Knowing that companies have relatively free reign when adding chemicals to their products is a bit scary. And to learn that chemicals are already being induced into children before they're born is even scarier.
I feel that much more research must be done for this cause. I've always felt relatively knowledgeable about environmental health issues but I've already realized I haven't even scratched the surface. Doing so could possible open up a pandora's box of health risks associated with many common chemicals found in our everyday products similar to what we have learned about BPA's.
We would be remiss not to explore these concerns further as a country and environmental health should no longer take a back seat to other issues in our country. This is something that affects us all. And as usual, poor people and minorities take the worst of it.
I agree Nando, these problem can't be on the back burner anymore, they need to come front and center. I abolutely loved this quote she sighted.
ReplyDelete"If we ever 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."
- Louise Slaughter, US Representative