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Canaries in the Coalmine
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Robyn O'Brien, founder of Allergy Kids, weighed in recently on Dr. Alan Greene's blog on why some pediatric specialists view our children as "canaries in the coalmine".
Today, 1 in 3 American children has autism, allergies, ADHD or asthma.
What is driving these childhood epidemics? Ten years ago, we didn’t have this problem. Today, however, some pediatric specialists view our children as "canaries in the coalmine". So what has changed?
According to our brilliant friends at DrGreene.com, The Organic Center, Healthy Child Healthy World and the Environmental Working Group, there is mounting evidence (actually, colossal evidence!) that increasingly points to the chemical toxicity of our food supply and the impact that these chemicals are having on the health of our children.
Weren’t aware of that connection? Well, neither was I, so here’s what I learned:
In 1996, the United States adopted widespread use of genetically modified crops due to growing public concern over the health risks associated with the industrial spraying of insecticidal and pesiticidal toxins.
In an effort to reduce the spraying of these toxins, scientists began using biotechnology to engineer these pesticides and insecticides into the plants themselves to ensure corporate profitability of these agricultural commodities.
As these ingredients were introduced around the world ten years ago, government agencies in Europe, Asia, Australia, Japan, Russia and 45 developed countries required them to be listed on food labels, so that consumers could make informed choices when it came to feeding their families.
In the United States, our regulatory agencies do not require these genetically engineered ingredients to be labeled.
So, unlike other developed countries, we have not been informed that almost 70% of our corn, 90% of our soy and 75% of our processed food now contain neurotoxins, novel proteins and allergens.
Today one out of every three children suffers from allergies, asthma, autism or ADHD. It appears that we have unknowingly and without informed consent engaged our children in one of the largest human trials in history.
Ten years into this human trial, our children are trying to tell us something.
Shouldn’t we listen?
To learn more, please visit www.allergykids.com, where additional Resources are available, as well as Robyn’s series on http://www.drgreene.com and learn what you can do to protect the heath of your family!
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Posted by Evie Failla on 01/06/2009 at 09:26 AM
I think it is a conspiracy.
Think about it: in the UK (for example), their government takes steps to protect their children from harmful toxins in food and toys, yet our government turns a blind eye. In the UK, the government subsidizes their health insurance so they have a greater investment to ensure that the children are healthy. In the US, where each family is left to ‘fend’ for themselves for insurance, it’s in the best interest of pharmaceutical companies and certain government lobbyist (just to offer two examples), that our children AREN’T healthy, but are dependent on a broken health care system.
Of course our children are sicker (it’s not just the technology that we have now, which is a frequent argument that I hear) and common sense would tell someone that it is the food that we consume. Besides the environment, what else had changed so radically since our parents generation?