Wednesday, September 24, 2003

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HOW NOT TO TREAT THE FUTURE: BREAST MILK RICH IN BROMINATED FIRE RETARDANTS

Excerpts from this report:

"No study links intake of the chemicals from breastmilk with any problems in children."

Report back to me in seven generations.

"Any health effects probably take place while the children are still in the womb, the group said."

Most heartening.

However,

"Brominated fire retardants impair attention, learning, memory, and behavior in laboratory animals at surprisingly low levels," the EWG report reads.

These neoproblems in children sound familiar?

"The most sensitive time for toxic effects is during periods of rapid brain development."

e. g., infancy.

"The average level of bromine-based fire retardants in the milk of 20 first-time [US] mothers was 75 times the average found in recent European studies,"

Now that's cutting edge.

In all the blinkered 'wisdom' of our jagganath 'progress,' we have no idea what we're really doing: not just to our world, but to our generations. We're not yet nearly wise enough to realize true progress; and if we're doing this to the infancy of our descendants, perhaps we never will be.

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