Synthetic chemicals killing us?

[NYCheapo]

For those who watched the Bill Moyers special: "Trade Secrets" Do you think chemicals are to blame for cancer and falling iq's? Website link Trade Secrets

PS and if you didn't try to catch it on PBS. It was on monday night 9pm Est and tuesday night 12am


Stop Poisoning Me Chemical Industry :|

 

[novon]

that was some pretty scary stuff

 

[novon]

makes you wonder if this generation is in trouble

 

[Zucchini]

shucks missed it.. no more reruns?

anyhow, everything is killing us Studies have shown extreme calorie restriction in primates leads to healthy and long living animals. So food is killing us

 

[jkersenbr]

I'm a farmer and part of my livelihood is the use of chemicals. Herbicides, instecticides, and other pesticides are things I use almost every day during the growing season.

I quote from the PBS article:
"Of the more than 75,000 chemicals registered with the Environmental Protection Agency, only a fraction have gone through complete testing to find out whether they might cause problems for human health."

This is a lie. In order to obtain EPA registration, a chemical in it's raw from is fully tested for its effects on human health. And, by law, this information has to be included on the products labels. The registration process takes a long time. Many new agricultural pesticides being released to licenced restricted use pesitice applicators today were developed by the chemical companies in the early 1980's. They've spent the last 20 years on the EPA's desk.

No one really knows the effect that chemicals have down the line in food or whatever. I don't think that this can really be proven because of the lenght of time (mulitple generations) involved. But chemical effects in their original form are fully tested.

Don't believe everything you read.

 

[JACKHAMMER]

The chemicals they are talking about (I assume) are called endocrine disruptors. It is the reason that in some areas the age of female puberty is around 8.

 

[cipher00]

Jeez, personally I only want to be killed by natural, all organic chemicals.

 

[brandc]

Who has time to worry about death by synthetic chemical when the sky is falling?

 

[NYCheapo]

Have fun reading the official chemical industry documents at chemicalindustryarchives.org

BTW If they are killing us, I believe they have the responsibility to pay us too. Sue Sue Sue

 

[Azraele]

Chemicals are only one hazard of many. Look at pollutants in the air we breathe and the things we dump in rivers, streams, and oceans.