We have another video to help demystify modern food, this one is about chicken.
Do you eat chicken that isn’t certified organic?
If you do, or if you think the inspection system ensures that what you eat is safe, then please take 2 minutes to watch:
Then visit Food & Water Watch for details and how you can make a difference.
Posted in Food, Health, Policy
Tagged chicken, deregulation, factory farmed chicken, Food & Water Watch, inspections, regulations
There’s a great new series of videos about the marketing of “natural”.
Have a look:
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Posted in Education, Environmental Health, Food, GMO, Health
Tagged contaminated health food, marketing, video
Many of us (too many now) have to wear a mask to filter some of the pollutants out of the air we have to breathe. I guess I am lucky that I have not cared about what people think when I wear mine to protect my health.
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For others, it’s not an easy decision, for a variety of reasons, and sadly, most of them have to do with a lack of understanding and acceptance in our communities.
In January, three bloggers that I am aware of have written about their mask wearing experience.
Posted in Accessibility, Air Quality, Health, MCS/ES, Pollution
Tagged air quality, fragrance chemicals, masks, MCS, protection
We live in an increasingly wireless world. Manufacturers are even making wireless devices for babies now! Yet, current safety standards do not take into consideration all the effects of wireless radio frequencies on our bodies, especially those of children!!!
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(Text added to original photo from Healthy Child Healthy World)
Part 1
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24095003 PMID: 24095003 [PubMed] or
http://www.pathophysiologyjournal.com/article/S0928-4680%2813%2900037-0/abstract
Part 2
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24113318 PMID: 24113318 [PubMed] or
http://www.pathophysiologyjournal.com/article/S0928-4680%2813%2900038-2/abstract
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Men, did you know you can damage your sperm if you keep your wireless device in your pant pocket? Putting it in your shirt pocket might not be any safer, as there are reports of adverse effects on the heart and of breast cancers when phones were there.
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We are in urgent need of updating safety standards, and Health Canada has appointed a committee to do something, but it isn’t clear exactly what.
At the following link, you can access the videos and written reports of many of the submissions prepared for The Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel Review public hearing day on Safety Code 6, Limits of Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Energy (wireless radiation safety)
Posted in Brain, Child Health, Environmental Health, Health, Public Health, Wireless
Tagged autism, brain, breast, cancer, children, expert submissions, Mobile phones, safety review, safety standards, science, sperm, wifi, wireless dangers
It has recently come to light that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is allowing businesses to claim their foods and products are organic, without penalty, when clearly they are not:
Posted in Food, Government, Health, Pesticides
Tagged false advertising, organic food, pesticides in organic food, take action
Warning: This post contains many photos of cats.
What follows is something I thought was a great response by Kristine Kruszelnicki to someone who trivialized her MCS and compared it to his cat allergy
(shared with her permission, and with many photos of cats added by me):
Posted in Accessibility, Environmental Health, Fragrance, Health, Human Rights
Tagged allergies, cat allergy, cats, IAQ, MCS, toxic chemicals
More about OBGY initiatives to inform women of childbearing age about the hazards that toxic chemical exposures can present to our future generations… from H&E, which is published by the Cancer Prevention and Education Society:
I wrote about the UK announcement here:
OBGYs Advise Pregnant Women to Live As If They Have MCS/ES!
Posted in Child Health, Environmental Health, Health
Tagged health effects, MCS, toxic chemical exposures
Do you eat salmon? If so, please watch, read and learn, and most importantly, PLEASE don’t eat farmed salmon or feed it to your pets!
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Salmon Confidential
http://www.salmonconfidential.ca/
http://www.salmonconfidential.ca/all-films/
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What is happening with salmon, has happened before. In fact, it’s very similar to what has happened regarding MCS/ES.
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Missing Fraser River Sockeye
Photo via Leanne Hodges
In addition to the diseases being found in most farmed salmon now, there are many toxic chemicals used in farmed salmon feed and in the pesticides that are used to “treat” the viruses. You wouldn’t want to BE a farmed salmon, nor would you want to eat any, or feed them to your family or pets if you knew all this!
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‘Organic’ farmed salmon misleads conscientious consumers
21 August 2013
http://galwayindependent.com/20130821/opinion/organic-farmed-salmon-misleads-conscientious-consumers-S23037.html
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Diets of Pregnant Women Contain Harmful, Hidden Toxins http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130807094241.htm
…”Staggering” levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been found in farmed salmon.” …
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“Farmed Salmon: Unhealthy and Unsustainable”
(2010) by Jean-Michel Cousteau, first son of Jacques Cousteau
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I just got the new IKEA catalogue, and they make a big deal out of using farmed salmon. You might want to let them know that serving harmful food to their customers is not a good business strategy.
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New: Smoked Farmed Salmon and Listeria
Listeria in Smoked Salmon: Examining the Risk
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/09/listeria-in-smoked-salmon-examining-the-risk/
Listeria monocytogenes bacteria detected in some ready-to-eat smoked salmon samples sparked a rash of recalls in recent months, with major fish producers such as Ocean Beauty, Marine Harvest and Pacific Seafood Group, plus retail giants including Whole Foods Market, Walmart and Ralph’s, getting caught in the recall net.
“Difficult to detect or cure, listeriosis may start with a fever or stiff neck and then progress to confusion and convulsions, encephalitis and meningitis. Nearly everyone who gets invasive listeriosis requires hospitalization and a weeks-long course of intravenous antibiotics. Odds are that the disease will kill one out of every five victims, giving it the highest mortality rate of foodborne pathogens.”
Posted in Ecocide, Environmental Health, Food, Health, Nature
Tagged documentary, environment, farmed salmon, MCS/ES, salmon, science, toxic, video
Children of all ages, as well as teachers, require healthy environments to thrive in. Schools, unfortunately, have notoriously poor indoor air quality.
One thing that contributes to poor IAQ is the use of fragrance chemicals in cleaning products, as well as in personal care and laundry products.
These chemicals do nothing to enhance the air quality, and much to induce cognitive and neurological impairments, sperm damage and respiratory problems.
Boys who overused sprays such as Axe Body Spray have prompted the Brandon School Division to ban perfumes and colognes. (Canadian Press) / via CBC
Over-use of these products is not the real problem.
The real problem is that these products contain toxic chemicals and serious allergens, and these chemicals and allergens do not respect personal boundaries or property lines, but trespass into everyone’s air, brains and bodies.
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