Our Stolen Future
by: Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers
This article talks about chemical waste and pesticides that are now circulating through the earths natural cycles. There is much evidence that these contaminants are affecting the local wildlife in a variety of ways. Many believe that these same chemicals are causing serious long term affect within human tissue as well. Though the evidence is probable at best transferring the result from lab animals to a human situation there is alot of different factors to take into account the most obvious being that "mice are not little people" meaning that studies on another species may not accurately explain what may happen to a human being. On the contrary however espcially with other mammals tissues and organs are very similar so studies could be more accurate than previously believed. Dosage is also an issue because most lab experiments use the large dosage when intake would be marginal in real situations
Pediatritions especially have noted more and more abnormalities in children. As well more cancer amoung the human population
From Selection 32 of Sources: Environmental Studies by Thomas Easton
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