Dr. Mercola May 29 2007 46,537 views
Dr. Mercola"s Comment:
I am a major fan of technology and all the benefits it provides, but it just sickens me to see how these chemicals are ruining the planet.
Plastic pollution is now inevitably entering the food chain, and it"s not just marine animals that are being affected. People, too, are ingesting minute levels of plastics every day, and being exposed to a potentially deadly mix of plastic chemicals and additives, including:
One fact that should alarm you -- while the EPA has had everything in place to develop a screening program for endocrine disruptors since 1996, thanks to the Food Quality Protection Act, not one test has been conducted to date. In the meantime, the EPA keeps on approving chemicals at a clip of some 700 annually, relying heavily on the manufacturers that make them to be completely honest about their safety.
What is the result of mankind breathing, eating, drinking and absorbing all of this plastic?
Obesity, declining fertility rates and other reproductive problems, cancer and more. Particularly vulnerable are our children, who are exposed to plastics in the hospital, and through baby bottles and toys.If you"re still looking for a reason to adopt a more natural, healthy lifestyle, this one is as good as any. Avoid these dangerous plastic chemicals in your life as much as possible by:
Giving up bottled water is one of the easiest things you can do to help protest the mess that we are in and that is only growing worse every day.
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I find it quite disturbing that not only our land is getting eaten up by an overdose of houses, but now our oceans! If you come to SD, it is quite sad as well. There are days when it rains that they put up skull and bones signs signifying that the water is not swimmable and not safe to go into secondary to all the bacteria and sewage, yes sewage!! We also (just had 2 recently into lagoons that fun into the ocean) have frequent sewage pipes that breaks and TONS of sewage is dumped directly into the ocean. If we don't start caring for our ocean (which is the blood of the universe), they will just be one big toilet in the future.
Whole Foods practice is illogical.....instead of paying people 5 cents to do the right thing, they should penalize people for not bringing their own canvas bag by forcing them to buy one.....I personally refuse to allow them to give me the nickel credit......years ago when I was traveling in Mexico or other third world contries, I saw that when you went to the market, if you didn't bring a bag, you had to buy one.....no free bags: paper, plastic or otherwise....avoid plastic all you can and more importantly work to have all retailers discontinue the practice of "free bags" which as the article reveals, are not "free" at all.....our laziness has a great cost....