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 getting
it", the cancer: HOW does one go about doing this, when there is now
NOWHERE on earth that doesn't have toxic chemicals polluting it? Even the
North and South Poles, and everywhere they have tested in the deepest
forests of the Amazon. Very frightening. We can all stop using these
products, but when we inadvertently come into contact with them, we are
still exposed unwittingly, and then, our risk of cancer et al rises (with
each exposure). A very big concern for all of us is, if we need surgery of
some kind, or are hospitalized for some reason and have to have intravenous
fluids, we are then exposed directly to this plastic-leaching chemical,
right INTO our bloodstream! I am NOT AT ALL comfortable with that, and
while there are alternatives available, the standard hospital doesn't carry
them (though they can be ordered specially - but an emergency doesn't allow
that to happen) routinely. I am certain that they are also more expensive
than the currently used plastics. I would also like to mention that oxygen
masks, tubing for same, tubing for any drainage tubes one has in one's body,
urinary catheters, plastic-based/covered devices implanted during surgery
etc, ALL leach the same toxins, right inot our bodies. So I guess we just
pray for no emergencies, and ask our hospitals to please order alternatives.
Limaloa
-----Original Message-----
From: vikki charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: leaky plastics
>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 (incl. plastic soda bottles, plastic
>> baggies, tupperware . . . .)
>> that they indeed leach hormonal disrupters which are causing girls to
>> reach puberty prematurely, for one . . .other effects i cannot remember
>> . . .
>> does anyone have information on this?
>> thanks!
>> gwendolyn griffin
>>
>
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>vikki charles
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