I know we're all being victimised, but is it really worth
worrying about deodourant giving you cancer or this and
that? You could still go to work and get hit by a bus. Life
is too short to waste worrying about things like that. Like
people that give up chocolate because it makes them fat
even though it's their favourite food int he world. Okay,
stupid analogy, but you could spend your entire life being
afraid you'll get cancer or whatever and spend the whole
time running away from it and then get hit by a bus or
blown up by some maniac bomber next week. I don't know
about anyone else but I don't want to be on my death bed or
die and sit there in heaven thinking about what I could or
ahould have done with my life.
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:16:04 -1000 Spencer Adams
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> 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
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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