Doesn’t it make you angry that citizens have to fight for safe food, water, and air? Never would I have thought of myself as an activist. Oh, not me. Activists are slightly loony, in-your-face, a fringe element of society. That’s what I used to believe. No longer. I've joined their ranks. Yes, little old innkeeper me. Corporations have become so powerful that individual citizens must step up to the plate and indicate their willingness to oppose the status quo. Yesterday, it was water. In my opinion, spraying herbicides on the Outer Cape is total lunacy since most of us drink well water from a single source aquifer. (Please go here for information from the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition on how to protest NStar’s plan to spray toxic chemicals under the power lines, two months earlier than the utility company's executives promised the Select Board of Eastham.) Today, I received an email from a reader in France, requesting support of a similar worthwhile cause. A certain number of people must view the trailer below if Jean-Paul Jaud’s film on pesticides (and their probable link to cancer) is to be screened in French movie theaters. Help put Nos Enfants Nous Accuseront before an audience and perhaps one day we will be allowed to see this important documentary in the USA. While you're at it, please go to the Environmental Working Group Web site to read how the EWG president recently testified before Congress, and sign this petition in favor of the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act…
11 comments:
Thank you for posting the French trailer, very powerful. I also signed the petition. Every little bit helps. Thanks for making me aware.
Very interesting, Alexandra. More and more info points in the direction of organics.
This does need to be an international effort! Thanks for sharing it.
Very powerful. Thanks for keeping us aware, Alexandra.
"In my opinion, spraying herbicides on the Outer Cape is total lunacy since most of us drink well water from a single source aquifer."
I TOTALLY AGREE. The short-sightedness of polluting just astounds me. I answered your call to action and I'm grateful to you for writing about this, Alexandra!
Judith emailed this comment: "I watched the film. Shockingly, they said that the kids of tomorrow will not be a healthy as their parents because of the spraying of pesticides. interesting, when the lecturer was talking he kept asking about relatives with cancer, at least 1/2 of the people sitting in the audience raised their hands. Ouch! What I don't understand is why this doesn't stop. Aren't we, after all, ALL in this together. How could they be more interested in profits than health? It just doesn't make any sense. Are we that greedy, money driven and possessed by things?"
Unfortunately, the answer to that question is YES!!
Alexandra,
Thanks to people like you we are being kept aware of frightening dangers like these.
You're doing a wonderful job of keeping these issues in the public eye. Excellent.
Thanks for posting this information--and the trailer.
Christine, here. Wouldn't it be nice if one day we didn't have to worry about these things anymore? (Sigh.)
Thanks for always keeping these issues in the public eye. I often like to believe that European countries are more advanced that we are when it comes to saving the planet. It's sobering to read that people are fighting similar battles in other countries.
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