Tag: cancer

roundup, glyphosate, cropduster, gmo corn
Environmental Health

GMO Herbicide Glyphosate, Toxic to Ecosystems, Carcinogenic to You

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Bayer’s multi-billion dollar GMO herbicide is one of the most toxic substances ever launched on the public, responsible for cancers and other diseases, and has significant negative effects on ecosystems across the world. California has agreed to add glyphosate, the main ingredient of Monsanto’s Roundup, to the list of known carcinogens.

Wilmington Waterfront Park, Conoco Phillips Refinery
Politics and Advocacy

Coast-to-Coast Climate March: Why Launch from LA Harbor?

The 3,000-mile Great March for Climate Action will launch March 1st from the Los Angeles Harbor Area. Sherry Lear, San Pedro soccer mom, writes on the history of the community that has experienced debilitating effects from fossil fuel development, explaining why it’s a perfect place to march en masse for clean energy solutions. More Information: http://j.mp/GreatMarchWU

Environmental Health

Danger and Risk from Nuclear Fission Products

Some believe low, cumulative doses of radiation from dietary exposures are one-hundred to one-thousand times more dangerous than brief, high exposures as in the case of atomic bomb blasts or x-rays. It is known, in fact, that exposure to nuclear fission products impair the body’s defenses against cancer by depleting it of protective enzymes such as superoxide dismutase.

Environmental Health

Overcoming Our Carcinogenic Industrialized Society

As the President’s Cancer Panel report says, about 41 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some time in their lives, and some 21 percent will die of it. In the last few years “[a] growing body of research documents a myriad established and suspected environmental factors linked to genetic, immune, and endocrine [hormonal] dysfunction that can lead to cancer and other diseases.”