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Salon | Free Drugs from Your Faucet (drastically edited):
nothing is being done to limit drugs in the water supply
affecting universal cellular housekeeping common to all forms of life
Reuters | We are not entirely human, germ gene experts argue (drastically edited):
Bacteria are so important to key functions such as digestion and the immune system that we may be truly symbiotic organisms—relying on one another for life itself
like an amalgam, a mix of bacteria and human cells. There are some estimates that say 90 percent of the cells in our body are actually bacteria
the entire sum of genetic material from microbes in the lower gut…includes more than 60,000 genes…twice as many as the human genome.
Scientists have long known that at least 50 percent of human feces, and often more, is made up of bacteria from the gut.
Of all the DNA sequences in that material, only 1-5% of it was not bacterial.
Bacteria start to colonize the intestines and colon shortly after birth, and adults carry up to 100 trillion microbes, representing more than 1,000 different species.
They are not just freeloading. They help humans to digest much of what we eat, including some vitamins, sugars, and fiber. They also synthesize vitamins that people cannot.
Humans have evolved for million of years with these bacteria. And they provide essential functions.
We’re entirely dependent on this microbial population for our well-being. A shift within this population, often leading to the absence or presence of beneficial microbes, can trigger defects in metabolism and development of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease.
Salon | Free Drugs from Your Faucet (drastically edited):
What if the best medicine had to be withdrawn to protect the environment?
male and female hormones are definitely reaching the environment in both liquid and solid animal wastes. Birth control drugs, steroids used by body builders and athletes
not a Dow Chemical drainage pipe but our own personal plumbing
ironically led to shortages, including India where Dasani by Coca-Cola caused shortages in 50 villages
bottled water costs more than gasoline
bottles require annually enough to fuel some 100,000 cars. Worldwide, some 2.7 million tons of plastic bottle water each year.
disposing the plastic bottles poses environmental risk
86% end up as garbage and those buried can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade
Of course intellectual property is far too important to let collusion over bioplastics research threaten anyone’s right to sit on innovation! And genetic modification is far too profitable a monopoly not to include in any solution!
But you’re suicidal if you drink tap water; not all bottled water is a joke. Unfortunately, the purest sources are often farthest from the consumers with the income to pay for it, meaning greater pollution in transportation.
Very energy-intensive in its use of fossil fuels—a big source of pollution, harmful to the planet and humans in its manufacture.
disable enzyme activity in the organs…continues inside the body
cancerous tumours have shown residues
cancerous tumours have shown residues
If people could find a way to indulge without effecting my lungs, my brain, my life, my friends and all of the wildlife on the planet, go ahead. This dumping of chemical products into the water is a terrible form of animal cruelty.
EPA established Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program “evaluating” 600,000 animals for every 1,000 chemicals. rodents, birds, frogs, flies, mysid shrimp, and fish.
Do we really need suffering in every case? These are all the same industries, the same processing, the same unnatural results, and the same harmful effects. Grow up!
It’s of course nothing more than industry buying time for itself, in the Orwellian Bush tradition of preserving free speech in order to ignore it. No one ever intends that these studies will affect anything, and by the time they do, the perps will have moved on and certainly for all of us, the damage done.
That’s why I say we need to grow up about this, because it’s obvious once you know even the most basic facts, when something will be awful—and it doesn’t matter if that won’t also let you predict when things’ll be good! That’s another hangover from religion, a zero-sum God-is-all mentality insisting that anything be or become anything that could threaten it (hence the deification of chemicals which kill all). It’s an extension of a passive-aggressive explosion of the principle that the source of all evil is us, which is birth, which is impregnation, that what goes in one way must be responsible for all others. Anything less than a perfectly simple worldview on human behavior is blasphemy. Has been for centuries and it’s plenty explicitly effective even now, without having to be officially administered by the church. And liberals obsess over separation of church and state! It’s like democracy in the first place: what good is it when no one participates to any effect? They’re all still sheeple of the steeple (sorry (for the rhyming!)).
“A republic, if you can keep it.”—Benjamin Franklin
The shortcomings of this mentality are neatly expressed in another Franklin quote:
“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”—Benjamin Franklin
As though they cannot concurrently co-exist. People can move themselves. The paradox of concurrent times rather than timeframes highlights the gaps in the “thinking” of Bush types:
Ron Suskind’s, “Without a Doubt”, The New York Times, containing an instantly infamous quote by an unnamed Bush staffer:
guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
“History. We don’t know. We’ll all be dead.”
And sooner than otherwise, thanks to equating death with whether or not that you could have known something in life. Acting, creating “knowledge”, therefore becomes its own justification and a death sentence to all who’ve discovered it, like some weird, dark inversion of pregnancy. It’s anti-intelligence. Such immunity to other human beings is just breeder reality porn incenting ever greater glory through extermination. The Bush dynasty’s fortune originated in Nazi Germany. I don’t think I need to point out the parallels between the Holocaust and the cavalier disregard for human life evinced by the Bush dynasty in particular, above and beyond the typical money-culture types which society and civilization evidently are more than willing to tolerate.
Humans thrived for millions of years without synthetic chemical products. Do you really need to dye your hair? Do you really need the huge lather, thick bubbles and berry “fragrance” of chemical detergents? unnecessary, cheap chemicals benefit the manufacturer’s bottom line, not you.
We dislike debates about synthetic ingredients with those who profit from them.
Profiting from fabricating them, especially, this isn’t even about profiting from offering a product. Discrediting someone who sells natural products thereabouts isn’t comparable because you’re not dealing with something where the act of creating it generates profit.
Ultimately, synthetics are an energy rape, where the “cheap” processes are energetically spectacularly expensive (which is not passed on to customers in anything approaching consummate with its environmental impact), the raw materials are quite literally dirt cheap, and the markup is obscene (fluoride’s 20,000%, for instance).
Stanford University reported in 1999 that vaccine was absorbed through hair follicles on unshaven, unbroken skin.
Vaccine. That means even vanishingly small amounts of virus, which is inherently bigger than atomic, molecular chemicals!
Most filters don’t—can’t—address industrial pollutants, especially trace amounts so critical to life. Not even nanofab has addressed the problems associated with needing to distinguish between similarly-sized molecules while also excluding even smaller elements like the poisonous fluorine. Matrices filtering for specific atomic weight…?
birth control for breakfast
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
