One more thing: organic & locally grown food CANNOT remain
a luxury for the upper middle classes. Our soil, our ability to
produce enough food for a growing population will depend in
the future on drastic changes in this direction in agriculture.
The tiny amount of progress that seems to be being made now
is happening on the level of the farmer's market,where local food
is often cheaper, can be bought with food stamps or other programs
that link low-income people with producers. We have a long way
to go though, especially in people's mind-set that the real goal of
bourgeois eating is to have access to every thing all year around,
and whatever is more packaged, processed & refined is "better."
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Colt,
I have a feeling that there will be an onslaught of media surrounding the
abortion and breast cancer report, two very hot topics. Although I have
not seen the article that I hear will be published in the Journal of the
National Cancer Institute, I am told that there have not been extensive
epidemiologic studies done yet on the relationship between abortion to
breast cancer. Early first full-term pregnancy is theorized to
provide the greatest protection against breast cancer. However, an abstract
I read of SW Somerville described that if a woman's first pregnancy resulted
in a first trimester abortion, the sharp increase in the number of 'vulnerable
cells' would elevate breast cancer risk. This is not the case with second and
third trimester abortions.
I am wondering if it follows that if women with low socioeconomic status
are also more likely to have early first full-term pregnancies (and less
likely to have abortions(?)), then there is a lower incidence of breast
cancer in this group. This might explain the high incidence of breast
cancer among the fairly affluent women of Orange County who have access
to health care, education, and who have children at later ages(?). Any
thoughts?
Patricia Realo
Univ. of California, Irvine
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On Thu, 27 Oct 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I've been lurking in the background for quite some time now--
> basically because I accidentally subscribed myself to the list while
> subscribing somebody else, but I stayed on because I found some of
> the issues of enough interest to at least scan through them every
> morning. Anyway, I'm happy to see some of the discussion trying to
> move on to new issues.
>
> I don't know how many of you heard it, but yesterday the news had
> some report linking, although tenuously, having had an abortion with
> increased rates of breast cancer. I wonder if anybody knows about
> this report and whether they are saying that having an abortion can
> increase your risk of breast cancer or whether certain socio-
> economic variables (e.g., diet, access to health care, education,
> etc.) that may (or may not--I don't know) lead to higher rates of
> abortion may also lead to an increased incidence of breast cancer.
> Any thoughts on this? I know it may not seem on the surface an
> ecofeminist issue but I think at its core it is.
>
> Thanks- Colt
>
