Unacceptable Levels Event @ Antioch University of Keene 12-11-14

Companies have open license to put more and more unpronounceable chemicals (primarily petroleum based), into our bodies and the ecosystems that we depend on for our recreation, jobs, food, etc. The chemicals are rarely completely tested and they are in every day products-- lawn chemical formulas and weed killers, detergents, shampoos and soaps, furniture...

Please join Transition Keene and the Antioch Advocacy Program at Antioch on Dec. 11 to watch a documentary about how we the people can support a change in direction and have the power to improve our own well-being in lieu of current political will to do so.

Summary of the 2013 film: "Concerns about his own and his family's health inspire filmmaker Ed Brown to investigate the use of dangerous chemicals and their potential effects on our bodies."

 

This is a very enlightening and inspiring documentary even for those well versed with the connection between health and environment.

 

For details, see link below.

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4e58b68309392dc8ae8d95dc5&id=e7c3a0ec2f

Exposures to Pesticides Cause Alarming Health Problems, Especially to Developing Brains

The March 31, 2014 publication of The Nation contains a lengthy article titled Pesticides and the Young Brain, New research raises alarms-- but will anything be done? This piece was very well-researched and presented by Susan Freinkel and Lee Fang. It brings to light the fact that pesticides used in agriculture, and in nonagricultural places like our lawns and golf courses, cause serious health problems ranging from cancers to diabetes to Parkinson's. Furthermore, it has been proven that children, when prenatally exposed to certain pesticides, suffered from "poorer memory, which affects learning, reading comprehension, and the ability to pay attention." And, as if that is not enough reason to stop the unnecessary use of lawn, garden and agricultural pesticides... "Studies of organophosphate pesticides and others have also found associations between in utero exposure and birth defects or childhood cancers. Other research, meanwhile, has linked childhood exposure with asthma, ADHD, early puberty and obesity." Please take the time to read the link (below), to get a full understanding of where we are at with proving the cause and effect aspect of pesticide use and health issues. It is imperative to tell our government that it is time to hold Big Chemical accountable for the tainting of our lives  with absurdly dangerous, untested synthetic pesticides. 

http://www.thenation.com/article/178804/warning-signs-how-pesticides-harm-young-brain#