sometimes I get depressed

I mean, does this really surprise me… no. But, I would like to think more highly of people, and sometimes they just really let me down.

I have written a lot about BPA (bisphenol A), and if you still use products with it, I ask you to stop. It is bad, very bad.

And then came this news:
Soon after scientists Frederick Vom Saal and Wade Welshons found the first hard evidence that miniscule amounts of BPA caused irreversible changes in the prostates of fetal mice, a scientist from Dow Chemical Company showed up at the Missouri lab. He disputed the data and declared, as Vom Saal recalls, “We want you to know how distressed we are by your research.”

“It was not a subtle threat,” Vom Saal says. “It was really, really clear, and we ended up saying, threatening us is really not a good idea.”

and this addition:
Earlier this year, the industry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat a California legislative proposal to ban BPA in food packaging. The Chemistry Council and allied companies and industry groups hired an army of lobbyists. Tactics included an industry email to food banks charging that a BPA ban would mean the end of distributions of canned goods for the poor.

I highlighted the last statement because of the impact that truly exists in this statement. I know that Dow and the likes want to make it seem like disadvantaged people are going to suffer without canned goods… but tell me this, how are they going to suffer because of canned goods?

But, I also want to say… when a chemical company launches this kind of campaign, we know that BPA is as bad as the scientist want us to know. Protect yourselves people… we know corporations won’t.

You can go HERE for the article