One good reason: toxic chemicals
>> Friday, January 29, 2010
One good reason for choosing to go all vegetarian AND all-bio is this: the chemicals we left behind once we crossed over, Juliette and I. Every day it seems like a new report comes out that some government agency is commencing a study to provide scientific evidence about the effect of chemicals in the consumer environment on health. Plastics come immediately to mind, of course, so a big part of getting away from pesticides and hormones in food also makes you more aware than ever just how profoundly affected we are by everyday things like cleaning products or the lining of metal cans for beverages and foods. The latest news has to do with new FDA policy on BPA, one of the truly ubiquitous concoctions of our plasticoated lives. Read about it and then ask, why did it take until now?
The point is, it does not take long before you get almost compulsive about the toxic in your world. As well you should be, of course (as Juliette is always quick to remind me), but keep a level head about it at the same time. Yes, yes, I say. You’ve got a good point and I agree, no need to be instantly alarmist, but then I stumble on a bit of news like the BPA story. I found myself pausing over this news, wondering why nobody has done this kind of study before now. Seems like basic stuff, to me. A moral duty, you might say, for the people charged with keeping an eye on such things. So, was it perversity (incompetence, not caring, disdain, bordom) or corruption (corporate or otherwise)?
The FDA, Juliette points out, claims that the potential for trouble with BPA has only recently come to light, hence the push to get a new study done.
Well, it little matters at this stage WHY the study hasn't been done, just that facts be marshaled now, actions taken. You know.
The best thing to do, meanwhile, is avoid plastics or any other chemical whose name has numbers in it.
The point is, it does not take long before you get almost compulsive about the toxic in your world. As well you should be, of course (as Juliette is always quick to remind me), but keep a level head about it at the same time. Yes, yes, I say. You’ve got a good point and I agree, no need to be instantly alarmist, but then I stumble on a bit of news like the BPA story. I found myself pausing over this news, wondering why nobody has done this kind of study before now. Seems like basic stuff, to me. A moral duty, you might say, for the people charged with keeping an eye on such things. So, was it perversity (incompetence, not caring, disdain, bordom) or corruption (corporate or otherwise)?
The FDA, Juliette points out, claims that the potential for trouble with BPA has only recently come to light, hence the push to get a new study done.
Well, it little matters at this stage WHY the study hasn't been done, just that facts be marshaled now, actions taken. You know.
The best thing to do, meanwhile, is avoid plastics or any other chemical whose name has numbers in it.
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