sorry to beat a dead horse

I know I keep harping on Bisphenol-A, but it just really is so bad for us, and so prevalent, and such a political hot-topic that I have to keep bringing it up.

In light of a report released today by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the FDA will bow its head in shame over reports that it allowed the chemical companies to write the assessment that deemed Bisphenol-A safe.

When the government watchdog on health allows an outside source, that also just happens to make the chemical in question, to write its own report about safety and efficacy, I can assure that we have gone down a road that we need to turn back from.

The FDA was put in place to protect our citizenry. It seems that now its job is to protect corporate interest.

I think as we learn more about this chemical, the FDA is going to be embarrassed about its enthusiastic embrace.

Thank you to the investigative journalist that discovered this finding. You can find the article HERE.

I guess their name really says it all

SAFEWAY has made the deision to ban all baby bottles made with Bisphenol-A.

This really is a huge step. You see the FDA wants you to believe that Bisphenol-A is just fine. But research upon research shows that it isn’t. This is a major move where a retailer, and large corporation, has decided to take the issue into their own hands and do what is best for the consumer. I commend them for being so aggresive in their policies.

You can see the article HERE.

I have created a special Bisphenol-A category so you can easily get to all my previous posts about this chemical.

how do we make this stop?

I sit here everyday scouring the internet and magazines for articles and news that I think you need to know about. I find data and I ask you to stop using products made from GMO seeds, or made with HFCS, or release BPA into your body.

But what I am beginning to understand, and I hope you do to, is that whatever effect those items may have on you and your body, can be doubled, tripled, or gosh knows how bad on our poorer populations.

I wrote yesterday about BPA being in canned goods and the threat chemical companies made to food banks. I asked a simple question, which is worse, these people being without food or the food they get being laced with a slow releasing poison?

I fear that we all sit in our homes, reading these articles about toxins and think to ourselves…”I rarely eat food out of a can, so I am not going to worry” or “Shelley told me to get a SIGG bottle, so I don’t drink out of plastic anymore”. Well, isn’t that nice that it doesn’t effect us. But are we not responsible for ensuring that change occurs so that people that don’t have the information of resources don’t get hurt? And, don’t we end up being recipients of that change, as well, because we will have less resources being sent to medical costs?

I don’t have the answers to these questions, but I am one to ponder and ask and come to a necessary conclusion. This comes up because it seems of all the water bottles out in the world, WalMart manufactured water is the most poisonous, containing chemicals at a higher level than is legal in California. You can find the article HERE.

Now, you may think you would never buy WalMart water because you prefer AquaFina. Which is fine. But what about the latino family that can’t afford anything better? Or what about the school that buys that water for a field trip for the fourth grade class because it is the most cost effective?

If our voices are heard more loudly, then shouldn’t we speak up about what is right and wrong?

I’m just wondering where to start and how to make it stop. Any input would be cool.

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

what more can I say?

New data was released from University of Cinncinatti, today, about Bisphenol-A. In case you are new, BPA is a toxin leached in plastic and cans that mimics estrogen, resulting in bad, bad things. (Click HERE for more data on BPA.)

Well, it seems new research has shown that the presence of BPA disrupts the efficacy of chemotherapy. Apparently, not only is it similar to estrogen, it also is structurally similar to DES. The reason BPA harms treatment in two ways, DES makes cancer cells proliferate and estrogen protects cells from chemical attacks. So, if you have something in your body that mimics these, it is nothing but a benefit to the cancer.

So, if you have and are treating cancer… please refrain from using products with BPA.

This really is a huge deal, people. I cannot stress this enough. Please, please, please limit the use of products that contain BPA.

DES has a long, not so good history. You can go HERE to find out more.

how long does it take…?

Because I have always preached that you should buy locally….

A few weeks ago I linked you to a company for water bottles called SIGG. While I still LOVE my bottle and encourage you to purchase a reusable bottle and stop using plastic… I felt I needed to be responsible, and not hypocritical, and share with you a more local company to us in the United States.

KLEAN KANTEEN

Looks to be a great company. So, I encourage you to purchase from them for your bottle.

Remember moving away from plastic not only reduces the amount on non-biodegradable material put into our landfills, it also is the surest way to get away from Bisphenol-A

filed under: this is just ridiculous

I’m going to guess that people are starting to wisen up and not drink from water bottles as much as they have in the past. Why do I guess this? Because of THIS.

I have a feeling that the revenue these companies have seen in the past is dropping, which is why they have launched a PR campaign to show that drinking from a water bottle isn’t all that bad. I really, really cannot wait for the ads that somehow disprove that Bisphenol-A is bad for you, as shown HERE. Or that plastic filling our landfills is somehow not hurting the environment, despite the fact that it is non-biodegradable. My favorite will be how they are going to prove that spending $1.99 on a bottle of Evian is somehow better than just turning on your tap and filling a glass.

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