Paula Crossfield on HuffPo: "A Friend of Our Kids"
Paula Crossfield is a HuffPo blogger (she writes about food, see her site, Civil Eats) who draws the conclusion that maybe, just maybe, mercury really is a problem for our kids. Click HERE to read and comment please.
Until now, parents of children with autism who have spoken up about their fears that their child's disorder came on the heels of vaccination have been given the status of heretic. But it turns out that the increase in autism we have been witnessing over the last few decades could be a result of the over-all increase in the body burden caused by mercury in our air and water, and by proxy the fish we eat, our vaccines and dental fillings, and now, in our high fructose corn syrup, a substance marketed and consumed most often by those most at risk: children...
Paula Crossfield just wrote another great article about a pro-industrial food bias at the New York Times - there are a lot of parallels with its treatment of the autism-vaccine question.
http://tinyurl.com/dhahu2
Posted by: René | April 11, 2009 at 05:59 PM
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h776EhBm9MT8AWmnULEB5jp6pxCgD966A2BO0
Obama seeks tougher controls on mercury emissions
By DINA CAPPIELLO – 5 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration signaled Friday that it will seek more stringent controls on mercury pollution from the nation's power plants, abandoning a Bush administration approach that the industry supported.
The Justice Department on Friday submitted papers to the Supreme Court to dismiss the Bush administration's appeal of the rule, which a lower court struck down last year.
Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency said it would begin crafting a new rule limiting mercury emissions from power plants... (continued)
Posted by: anonymous | February 06, 2009 at 09:20 PM
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_16749.cfm
Sweden Bans Mercury, Should We Consider Doing the Same?
Link from Food Matters, January 15, 2009
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/11459/a/118550
Press release
15 January 2009
Ministry of the Environment
Government bans all use of mercury in Sweden
Posted by: anonymous | February 05, 2009 at 02:40 PM
Don't miss this -
http://allergykids.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/a-ripple-of-hope-when-courage-and-conscience-collide/
A Ripple of Hope: When Courage and
Conscience Collide
by Robyn O'Brien
EXCERPT
But with sick children, paralysis was not an option.
I realized that I had to find the courage, on behalf of my children and others, to speak out against the very system in which I was raised.
And I reluctantly stepped forward.
With the words of another crusader in hand, I found my voice: “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls.” (Robert F. Kennedy).
It is with that hope, and holding the hands of my four children, that I took a stand...
MORE @ LINK
Posted by: anonymous | January 31, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Here's a terrific related article,
FDA = Failure to Do Anything
Posted January 30, 2009
by Kerry Trueman
including intro to food activist Robyn Obrien
http://www.allergykids.com/
"who will soon be to Monsanto what Erin Brockovich was to PG & E when Random House publishes her book 'The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food is Making us Sick -- And What We Can Do About It' in May."
Posted by: anonymous | January 31, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Comments section unavailable to anyone else?
Posted by: anonymous | January 30, 2009 at 11:57 PM