Tests reveal high chemical levels in kids' bodies

CNN ^ | 10-22-07 | Jordana Miller

[yankeesdoodle]

Apparently, this little guy is mostly plastic and flame retardant-- who knew?

[MEGoody]

Most Americans haven't heard of body burden testing, but it's a hot topic among environmentalists and public health experts who warn that the industrial chemicals we come into contact with every day are accumulating in our bodies and endangering our health in ways we have yet to understand

Um, but if one believes in evolution, shouldn't one assume that human beings will evolve to be able to handle these chemicals?

[DemEater]

“Um, but if one believes in evolution, shouldn’t one assume that human beings will evolve to be able to handle these chemicals?”

Sure in a few hundred generations.

[blam]

"Um, but if one believes in evolution, shouldn't one assume that human beings will evolve to be able to handle these chemicals?"

We already are.

Sperm and eggs that can't 'handle' the pollution never become fertilied...those that do and are subject to high levels of pollution are spontaneously aborted, usually before the female even knows she was/is pregnant.

The kids being born today are not the same kids being born 100 years ago.

[frithguild]

He had two to three times the level of flame retardants in his body

Wait till he's a teenager...

[RinaseaofDs]

My grandfather used to have snowball fights in the asbestos pile at the refinery. If you didn’t smoke, you could snort the stuff through a straw and you’d be fine. If you smoked, well, it would turn your lungs into an empanada.

I was at my dentist yesterday and spotted a copy of the Material Safety Data Sheets (the entire frickin two volumes of them) on the shelf.

I asked, “What’s the deal with that?” Turns out the EPA and Washington State EPA require it. Of dentists.

Nothing like a little onerous over regulation of small businesses to get your economy going.

Anyway, good to know the little guy can walk through fire like that cheerleader on Heroes. That can come in handy.

[magslinger]

I wonder what his DHMO levels are?

[Spunky]

I wonder how I have survived to be as old as I am. I lived in houses with lead paint, ran behind DDT trucks spaying for mosquitos, and broke thermometers to play with the mercury in them.

[Havok]

Oh geeze...people are so worried about whats going to kill them. How about trying to live morally and then you don't have to worry about dying?

[ArrogantBustard]

Pretty darn high ... I know mine are ... I'm just sure to die sometime in the next century ...

[expatpat]

Now I understand where the MoveOn nuts come from.....

[TChris]

Translation of environmentalist FUD to English:

We see this stuff in our systems, and we have no clue what it does or doesn't do. Therefore, let's assume it's horribly evil, nasty stuff and that the government must regulate the living daylights out of every last milligram of it!

Even after scientific studies conclusively prove that it's harmless to us, let's continue to regulate it even more tightly and punish everyone who isn't as fanatically against it as we are, because that's the Right Thing to Do!

[Red Badger]

Now I understand where the MoveOn nuts come from.....

fire RETARDants.......

[Red Badger]

More children will die as a result of removing the fire retardants from their PJ’s than if you left them in......

[TChris]

More children will die as a result of removing the fire retardants from their PJ’s than if you left them in......

Yeah, well that kind of rational thinking sure wasn't around when DDT was on the chopping block. Enviros are apparently happy to sacrifice millions of children to their false god of nature.

[Red Badger]

Rachel Carson has probably killed more people than Hitler, Stalin and Mao put together.............

[expatpat]

But if this stuff is found to turn normal people into stupid, emotional left wing nuts, we will need to do something.

[MEGoody]

Now I understand where the MoveOn nuts come from.....

LOL All those plastics molecules getting wedged into their brains.

[Red_Devil 232]

Any business that uses “any” chemical must have MSD’s for those chemicals on site and available to all employees. Even that little bottle of “Whiteout”! Got a can of WD-40? Better have a MSD for it before OSHA arrives. No telling what kind of chems are in a Dentists office.

[sageb1]

“I’m just sure to die sometime in the next century ...”

The next one or this one? If it’s the former, can I have some of whatever you’re drinking? ;)