"Those in power are poisoning children” (Mussels not flexed?) (Mickey Z.)

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Sept. 21, 2006 -- According to a study presented at the recent national meeting of the American Chemical Society, "remnants of Prozac are flushed from the body and travel in wastewater that reaches streams and rivers ... (and) cause female mussels to release their larvae before they're able to survive on their own." Tell this to the person sitting in the next cubicle and the typical response will likely be either indifference or bemusement. After all who gives a damn about a mussel?

This got me thinking about Rachel Carson, who with the publication of her book, "Silent Spring," sounded a toxic wake-up call in 1962. "Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poison on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life?" Carson asked 44 years ago. "They should not be called 'insecticides' but 'biocides.'"

"Silent Spring" simultaneously alerted the public to the chemical dangers all around them while incurring the predictable wrath of corporate America. Indeed, an author can be certain about his or her impact when companies like Monsanto-the good folks who brought us Agent Orange-take aim.

The use and abuse of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, Carson posited, were directly responsible for myriad health hazards not only for humans, but all life on the planet. "If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials," she wrote, "it is surely because our forefathers...could conceive of no such problem."

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[HereSince1628]

1. Silent Spring may have been the most important book of the 1900's

For a book destined to Reader's Digest Book of the Month Club, it has been translated into nearly every language with a printed alphabet. It has been responsible for legislation on every continent.

All from a woman dying of breast cancer, who felt the book was too important not to complete. My students always marveled that discussing her life caused my voice to crack. A cold hearted professor moved by "this?" Yeah. All I can say is she was a model for human behavior that surely ranks right up there with the best who ever lived.

[earth mom]

2. Those in power poisoned infants with Mercury laced vaccinations

and now Autism, a once rare condition, is at epidemic levels!

So this does not surprise me in the slightest. It only makes me more angry...very very angry! :grr: