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.

this doesn’t seem good, at all…

Since I live in California this kind of bother’s me.

If we all didn’t have enough to worry about with hormone altering cosmetics, water bottles, and cans (click HERE, HERE or HERE.) Or, polar ice caps melting. Or, money. Now, we get some new acronym to worry about.

Seems that there are these things called PBDE’s.. which are fire retardent chemicals put in a whole bunch of things, mainly furniture and bedding. The levels of these toxins are 10 times higher in California that anywhere else. What’s worse is that we have it at twice the levels in our bloodstream than anyone else in the country.

“Levels in California homes were 10 times higher than those on Cape Cod, five times higher than those in Texas, six times higher than those in Washington, D.C., four times higher than those in Boston and 200 times higher than those in Europe, where the chemicals are used sparingly.”

HERE is the article. And, HERE is some information from Wikipedia.