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I just got this email. I don’t like to forward stuff to my friends because–well, you know: we all have enough stuff in our Inboxes already. But this is important. Read it, okay? And then sign the petition to roll back the FCC rule change. Thanks.

Barb Rubin points out that spraying for mosquitos doesn’t have to kill us too:
“Sprays made of garlic, mint oil and other essential oils will kill or repel these bugs. Why poison ourselves while making pesticide manufacturers wealthy? If we insist upon non-toxic solutions and refuse to purchase the dangerous ones, the marketplace will begin to [...]

URGENT ACTIVIST ALERT!
If you can summon the energy to write a single letter, please do so on behalf of getting the EPA to forbid human testing of pesticides. Yes, folks, chemical companies are paying people to EAT PESTICIDES to prove that humans can take greater exposure than currently permitted by law.

Dangerous chemicals:
American women, it turns out, have 10 to 70 times more PBDEs in their breast milk, tissues and blood than do women in Europe, where industry has gradually phased the chemicals out. This year, in fact, the European Union banned PBDE compounds.
In March, Environment California published a new study warning of the dangers posed [...]

Smucker?s line of ?Simply 100% Fruit? simply isn?t 100 percent fruit, according to the nonprofit food watchdog group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
In fact, says the group, Smucker?s ?Strawberry Spreadable Fruit? is only 30 percent actual strawberries?and 70 percent fruit syrup from apples and pineapples, lemon juice concentrate, pectin, red grape [...]

2 Paths of Bayer Drug in 80’s: Riskier Type Went Overseas
A division of the pharmaceutical company Bayer sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs — medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS — to Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980’s while selling a new, safer product in the West, according [...]

Children’s Health is Declining, Says American Chemical Society
by Bette Hileman*
Over the past few decades, various disturbing trends have led researchers to believe that environmental exposures are contributing to children’s declining health status in the U.S. Federal and private health programs are just beginning to realize the extent of the problem and to seek solutions.
Scientists are [...]

Yahoo! News - Smallpox Immunity Lasts Decades, Study Shows:
By Maggie Fox, Reuters Health and Science Correspondent
Immunity to smallpox lasts virtually a lifetime, researchers said on Tuesday in a report that suggests anyone vaccinated in the past still has some protection if the virus is used in a bioterrorism attack.

USDA Sold Biopharm Corn Tainted with Pig Virus Vaccine to Cargill:
An environmental group and an animal welfare organization today jointly released evidence that, for a second time, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sold corn that one of its own researchers said might be toxic.

Teen Says Her Cancer Came From Drinking Water

U.S. urged to put warning labels on Teflon pans

What’s In Your Back Yard?

US Consumer Group Condemns Announcement of WTO challenge on Modified Foods

MayoClinic — Occupational asthma: Wheezing at work

AlterNet: Pollution of the People