FW: [GSN] (fw) Orimattila Appeal Trial

1999-11-09 Thread Viviane Lerner
-Original Message- From: Del [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GSN] (fw) Orimattila Appeal Trial From: "Del" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Orimattila Appeal Trial ___ Finland: The Orimattila incident, where

Re: leaky plastics

1999-11-09 Thread vikki charles
Does it matter? Everything will kill you eventually if you let it. It's a question of not letting it... On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 22:19:12 -0600 Gwendolyn L Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have heard much about the fact the plastics leach toxics into whatever food substance they are holding

Re: leaky plastics

1999-11-09 Thread Linda Hose
There was an article about early puberty in E mag. (v8, nov/dec 97) that made the possible connection to plastic wrap (and other endocrine disrupting or mimicking chemicals). The article quoted a study in PEDIATRICS that indicated 3% of black girls and 1% of white girls (no mention of other

RE: leaky plastics

1999-11-09 Thread Farris, Sara
Now how is that useful? Surely ecofeminism is about more than such blanket fatalism tied, incongruously, with such dippy faith in individualism. I suppose my aunt, age 43, let toxins give her breast cancer and then let the cancer kill her? Sara -- From: vikki charles

Re: leaky plastics

1999-11-09 Thread Elizabeth MacNabb
Hi, Gwendolyn-- Greenpeace haas a website that deals with the topic of plastics and how they affect food, as well as other ways they pollute. The site can be found at http://www.greenpeace.org/~toxics/ Best, --E. At 10:19 PM 11/08/1999 -0600, Gwendolyn L Griffin wrote: i have heard much

Re: leaky plastics

1999-11-09 Thread Beth Carroll
Huh? vikki charles wrote: Does it matter? Everything will kill you eventually if you let it. It's a question of not letting it... On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 22:19:12 -0600 Gwendolyn L Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have heard much about the fact the plastics leach toxics into whatever

Re: leaky plastics

1999-11-09 Thread Spencer Adams
Hi Vicki - I agree with your basic premise, as we all die sometime, but the big problem here is that we are ALL being victimized by mega-industries that are manufacturing all this poison, without regard to human, animal or plant life - the only goal is to make money. So the point about "just not

Re: leaky plastics

1999-11-09 Thread Spencer Adams
Perhaps it would help to think of "feminism" as "humanism", as what affects women affects men too, though perhaps in different ways. But we ALL are exposed daily to myriads of toxins in our environments, no matter how careful we try to be. We are ALL being victimized by big industry whose goal