Children's health vs. corporate profit
The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) is ramping up its campaign against dioxin, a carcinogen generated by companies using chlorine to make products such as pesticides and pvc plastics, and by metal refining and smelting operations. InAmerica's Choice: Children's Health or Corporate Profit (available at www.essential.org), CHEJ says Americans "are at serious risk from their daily intake of dioxin in food" and that children are the most vulnerable. CHEJ compiled its report after it "got tired" of waiting for the EPA to issue its own dioxin study. America's Choice says dioxin is associated with disrupted sex development, birth defects, IQ deficiencies, and immune-function disorders, including increases in middle-ear infections and chicken pox. Most Americans ingest dioxins in meat, fatty fish, and dairy products (a good reason to consider moving toward an earth--and people-friendly vegan diet). The average daily American intake of dioxins is 200 times higher than the EPA's cancer guideline risk, the report says. (Anti-dioxin drawing courtesy Everyone's Backyard, published by CHEJ, www.essential.org)"
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