California to Measure Toxins in People

[goopie]

Last Friday Gov. Schwarzenegger signed into law the nation's first statewide biomonitoring program. The plan is to collect blood, urine, breast milk and hair from a few thousand Californians who volunteer to have their bodies tested for pollutants.

Read the articleTo be honest, I'd be rather scared to partake of this. Not that the testing itself

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[ash_pixie]

On the contrary, eating organic and cutting back if not cutting out animal products--fish especially since they collect toxins in a special way and end up HIGHLY toxic will *help* but not eliminate the problem of human toxisity. Things like not dying your hair using organic, biodegradable cleaning products and soaps...

[ash_pixie]

grr..hit the wrong button, anyway, in short, you can't really *fix* the problem this way, but you can do things to help curb further contamination.

[goopie]

Dying your hair.

Have you actually taken a good, long look at my head lately? Dye what exactly??

Good point about the fish, but what about mercury levels in fish? Isn't that an issue as well... can't remember where I last read about it, but I do recall that it was an issue.

There are many things we can do to reduce certain toxins. The problem is partially that so much of what we `require` for a convenient life leads to some sort of contamination of our environment. I guess its our luxuries that will end up killing us. That and demanding low prices at WalMart.

[ash_pixie]

It's true that almost everything we do produces more toxins, I mean breathing creates carbon dioxide which is technically a toxin to us... In any case, we can do what we can to make a lighter impact on the environment and take steps to keep ourselves from as many toxins as possible...

The more people who buy organic, use ethanol, electrical companies like Bullfrog, etc, the more it will call for change. Nothing happens *just like that*...it's all process.

radical ideas, well not really

[breathes]

The problem is even if we were to process soil and remove toxins and build a "plastic bubble" in which to grow your own personal food free from the outside world, along with an aquarium with clean water and live fresh bred from the "cleanest" of fish, you would still be screwed. Costs for a private citizen to grow enough fish to feed yourself would be enormous and once you have striped the clean soil you do have of all nutrients, where do you get new, healthy clean soil.

We would need to find a universal clean up plan that works and then we would need to be able to enforce it. Of course we will also need peace on earth and goodwill for all mankind. The problem is HUMAN NATURE if we could just dispose of that, the problem would be solved by mother nature.