Pre-Polluted Newborns No Big Deal? The EPA seems to think so. Help protect all children by supporting the Kid Safe Chemicals Act. Tell our elected officials that it's morally wrong for babies come into the world already polluted with hundreds of toxic industrial chemicals by signing this declaration.
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PVC: The Poison Plastic Are there toxic ties to your shower curtain? The familiar new shower curtain smell may be toxic to your health. PVC shower curtains can release over 100 chemicals into the air, some of which can damage the respiratory and reproductive systems, and even cause cancer. Sign the petition demanding safer PVC-free products for our homes, families, and communities.
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Get Rocket Fuel Out of Our Water! Perchlorate is a toxic chemical in rocket fuel that contaminates drinking water in 28 U.S. states and territories and has also been found in powdered infant formula. Tell the EPA to set legally enforceable limits on perchlorate pollution that will help reduce our children's exposure to the chemical.
Read it. See it. Change your life and the lives of your loved ones. Make a difference in your health and the health of the planet and our future. We CAN do it and most certainly we must make more informed choices.Grocery stores are such an illusion. The waste in packaging, transporting products, the ingredients (and the real ingredient behind what is mysteriously listed on the label), shelf space and electricity, dated items going to the garbage (that’s mostly produce since the other stuff has a life span to practically last into our child’s adulthood), how the animals we consume are treated (you are what you eat), hormones shot into our animals and getting into our dairy and meats, genetic modifications to the DNA of the foods, the colors and additives and smells added that now seem normal to us. It’s all a strange place with food-like substances.
Choose FOOD. Learn how to prepare and enjoy it. We can make a difference.
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We are each making a decision; we are casting a vote for our lives and our food every time we buy something, every time we put something in our mouths. If you choose to skip this movie and books, you are still voting for status quo - learn what that is and how THEY are playing you. Make the decision and make it consciously.
Author Annie Malka is a mother of four living in the Florida Keys. She writes about cooking, nutrition, organic foods and sustainability at her blog Hip Organic Mama.
