Toxic Births
March 21st, 2006 | researchmaterial
The New York Times published the toxicity of breast milk: found to contain “paint thinners, dry-cleaning fluids, wood preservatives, toilet deodorizers, cosmetic additives, gasoline byproducts, rocket fuel, termite poisons, fungicides and flame retardantsâ€. Want to hear the worst part? These chemicals will remain in human tissue for decades long enough for these babies to pass the PCBs and chemical onto their own children.
If that is not enough to rattle you take a look at Maggie Fox, Reuters article dated July 14, 2005. The article is based on a study made by testing the umbilical cords of 10 unborn babies. These results will surprise you. “Of the 287 chemicals we detected in umbilical cord blood, we know that 180 cause cancer in humans or animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests,” the report said…
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Give a new meaning to “born retarded”
No, it’s the same old meaning with a nice new list of causes.
It’s a good job that the human body is as fault-tolerant as it is (most of the time). Amazing, actually. Through simple natural selection (enforced in the womb) the only people left in a few hundred years will be those who can chug cans of carbonated benzine and thrive on lungfuls of carbon monoxide. We’ll have new arse-like organs all over our bodies for the daily collection and expulsion of tumours. Babies will be born earlier and earlier as it becomes advantageous to spend less time in the filthy wombs of their mothers.
Should be an interesting few centuries, really.
This is why I don’t do the dry-cleaning thing, I don’t wear unnatural fibers, I refuse to dress my children in chemically treated fire-retardant pyjamas (EW – stupid American rules about this are assinine) – and I limit my consumption of soft drinks…
when I was pregnant with my son, I quit a high-paying job, because I was daily exposed to diesel fumes from trucks and other fumes from forklifts in a warehouse/manufacturing environment – I KNEW it would affect me and my baby. The world is full of all kinds of SHIT. Not surprising it ends up in breastmilk.
Sounds like a plan, Lara. It’s really a shame that, in spite of all that you do to prevent it, everyone else around you adds to the problem.
I heard something a few years ago, but never got confirmation, that there are now so many extra hormones being pumped into the world that girls as young as four sometimes start showing signs of puberty. If anyone can confirm/deny this with proof, please do.
This information is completely meaningless without knowing the actual dosage of the chemicals involved. SUNLIGHT causes cancer if you get enough dosage, people. Trace amounts of carcinogens aren’t necessarily anything to concern youself with. Indeed, there’s a growing body of evidence that low-level exposure to carcinogens actually creates a lower incidence of cancer.
Soli – “heard something a few years ago, but never got confirmation, that there are now so many extra hormones being pumped into the world that girls as young as four sometimes start showing signs of puberty. If anyone can confirm/deny this with proof, please do.”
There was a hypothesis that hormones might be contributing to early puberty. However, the general consensus now, if memory serves, is that early onset of puberty in girls is actually linked to childhood obesity. Estrogen collects in fat cells, and so with more children being on the heavy side, the girls have more estrogen in their system and hit puberty earlier. To my knowledge, there has not been anybody who’s reached puberty at the age of four.
Alex Knapp put all of our minds to rest. But let’s not forget that the problem of chemical contamination of tissue cells and breast milk is only going to get worse if we do not take action.
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Mud, leaves, and insects also contain natural toxins. Keep this in mind before getting all tree-hugging on us.
Yeah, if God wanted us to be cancer-free He wouldn’t have invented the Star Wars program.
But when you consume it in high quantities, anything can be dangerous. Like bananas or pornography or asbestos.
The solution is simple: BAN EVERYTHING!
Especially bananas.
And porn.
In fact, banana porn and all forms of bananakakke.
(Yes, this entire comment was just a flimsy pretext to use the word bananakakke.)
“We’ll have new arse-like organs all over our bodies for the daily collection and expulsion of tumours.”
(((good: i won’t have to carry my rot around all the time…i can UNLOAD it…it’s grand making my problem, your problem)))
“Babies will be born earlier and earlier as it becomes advantageous to spend less time in the filthy wombs of their mothers.”
(((good: the sooner the little bastards slither out, the sooner we can get them WORKING…the machine needs new cogs…so what if the cogs are misshapen…work, damnit!)))
“We’ll have new arse-like organs all over our bodies for the daily collection and expulsion of tumours.â€
(((another good thing: each of these expulsions can be cataloged and tagged, ’spimed’ if you will…the better to track them as they go their merry ways…it’s important to see what kind of trouble my mobile pustules get into.)))
(((and: if we want, we can ‘borgifiy’ our independent tumors…why should the gov. have all the fun? i want my cancerous, mechanized spimes capable of self-defense, AND reporting back any nastiness they get into…i want it all…imagine a whole world of mobile, cancerous, self-defending, net-linked tumors and afterbirths, roaming the countryside and cityscapes…now that’s anarchy! anarchy we can enjoy from the comfort of our hovels by way of the streaming video and the v-blog.)))
(((it truly is a wonderful life!)))
Yes it is, Mitch.
Yes it is.
Well im glad by mother never breast fed me as a child, i’ve already suffered the injustice brought on my body as an unborn child within my mother’s womb when she drank insanely when her mother died during her pregnancy with me inside her.I was born with arthritus and couldn’t walk till i was 4.i say decrease the amount of toxins and other pollutants we spill into the air to try and reduce this indecent onslought to our future generations.
i would like to breast feed my children when the time comes but im afraid that ive taken in too much shit during my life to allow this. oh well c la vie.
the breast versus the bottle: not much difference these days…in either case the baby will still have to choke down additives and enhancers…same with everything else
i smoke…which cigarette do i prefer: the ‘natural’ unenhanced kind, or the one full to overflowing with formaldehyde and preservatives?
without the shit we deplore, we’d all fall apart
we’re toxicity embodied
our ears are full of it…our bellies swollen with it…our heads addicted to it
i say: well, why the hell not…
Breast-fed babies still turn out significantly healthier than formula-fed babies, even in polluted areas where breastmilk contains toxins. (Added bonus: breastfeeding doesn’t pollute during the manufacturing process.)
http://www.lalecheleague.org/Release/contaminants.html
CBC recently posted a pretty good in-depth report about cancer and environmental toxins. No big surprises, but it’s great to see a mainstream article call bullshit on everyone from drug companies to cancer societies.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/cancer/index.html
Towards the end, they give consumer tips for avoiding cancer-causing toxins…
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/cancer/whatyou.html