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August 10, 2005

Awash in Deadly Toxics, Biological Life Threatened

Two reports today which further highlight the degree to which poisons used in everyday life are deadly and changing ecosystems. The widely used herbacide Roundup has been found to be killing amphibians in large numbers. And the Californian nuisance plant horseweed in has derived resistance to herbacides used to control it. The world is awash with human created toxics of which we do not know their ecological impacts singlely, much less as a toxic cocktail. The chemical industry is a criminal enterprise, deriving profits from poisoning biological life and ecological systems upon which we all depend.

July 15, 2005

Unborn Babies Carry Pollutants

Is there anybody out there? If so, perhaps you would like to ponder the fact that our unborn children are being fermented in a toxic stew of chemicals - including mercury, gasoline byproducts and pesticides. We have no idea what the chemicals are doing to them individually, much less in tandem. Is there anybody out there not concerned with the environment? Do you still think the illusory gains of the industrial era are worth it? What is required to make you see that the way you are living can not last and is killing the Earth and all future generations?

January 10, 2005

Pesticides May Cause Cancer

Golly, spray deadly chemicals on your food, and it may cause cancer? Who would have guessed?

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Better monitoring of pesticides urged after link to prostate cancer

Government cancer advisers have for the first time said pesticides, particularly weedkillers, might cause prostate cancer and want better monitoring of their use