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  • From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Chemicals in our bodies
  • Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:55:40 -0800 (PST)

See the current issue of the National Geographic Magazine for an excellant article.  The test cost $15,000.   I was disappointed that they did not test for lawn, garden, farming chemicals. 
 
TRADE SECRETS:
 
A MOYERS REPORT is an investigation of the history of the chemical revolution and the companies that drove it – and how companies worked to withhold vital information about the risks from workers, the government, and the public.  He relies on an archive of documents the public was never meant to see –- documents that reveal the industry's early know-ledge that some chemicals could pose dangers to human health that were not disclosed at the time.
 
But the documentary also reports a much larger story – a never- before-told account of a campaign to limit the regulation of toxic chemicals and any liability for their effects.
 
Today, every man, woman and child has synthetic chemicals in their bodies.  No child is born free of them.  As part of the investigation for TRADE SECRETS, Bill Moyers took part in a study sponsored by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine designed to measure the synthetic chemicals present in the human body.  Even though Moyers has never worked in a chemical plant – or lived near one – he learned that his body contains a chemical soup of 84 industrial chemicals, including 31 different types of PCBs, 13 different dioxins, and pesticides such as DDT.  Video available.  <pbs.org/tradesecrets>.
 
Ken Hargesheimer


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