“Great News! The voices of mothers are being heard. Last week Toys”R”Us, Babies”R”Us, and CVS announced they’ll stop selling baby bottles which contain BPA, and Playtex committed to stop using BPA in all of their baby bottles by the year’s end.
But sadly, we can’t declare a full victory yet because many manufacturers and stores are still selling baby bottles made with BPA. Let’s keep up the pressure and get BPA out of all baby bottles and children’s products!
To do just that we’re working with our coalition partners to turn in 20,000 petition signatures at the end of this week to the CEOS of the leading companies that are making baby bottles with BPA. We already have over 12,000 signatures, and we need your help to reach 20,000.”
Please take action and sign the petition by following the link:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1768/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1177
“WHY NOW? After years of concern about the safety of baby bottles, children’s care products, and other food and beverage containers which contain the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), the verdict is in–and it’s not good.
In the past few weeks the Canadian government announced it is planning to ban the use of BPA in baby bottles, and declared BPA dangerous.[1] And the Los Angeles Times reported that the U.S. based National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded that there is “some concern” that babies, fetuses, and children are in danger because BPA harms animals at the low levels found in nearly all human bodies.[2] Sadly, a recent study found this chemical in all five leading brands of American baby bottles.
It’s enough to sink any mother’s stomach.
Let’s take a second to take a collective deep breath, and then mobilize for major action. Sign a petition calling for the CEOs of the leading manufacturers of baby bottles to stop the use of BPA in our baby bottles and other children’s products.”
“WHAT DOES BPA DO? Growing children are especially at risk to chemicals as they face greater exposure per pound of body weight. Even fetuses are susceptible as chemicals, including BPA, cross the placenta in pregnant women. Over 130 studies suggest that BPA exposure, even at low doses, is linked to many health problems, including early puberty, breast and prostate cancer, obesity, attention and hyperactivity disorder, brain damage, altered immune system, and lower sperm counts.”
- MomsRising.org
Some of the “all natural” products on the market are not quite as good as they claim. Please follow the links for more information:
“The National Nuclear Security Administration has submitted a draft plan for consolidating the nation’s nuclear weapons complex, but the plan ignores reasonable alternatives that could reduce harmful environmental impacts and set the stage for eventual elimination of nuclear arsenals. Tell the Bush administration to revise its draft plan in order to reduce and eventually eliminate America’s nuclear weapons arsenal.”
To learn more about this issue and quickly take action, please visit the NRDC Action Center
There was an article published in the paper discussing the fact that some farmers have already been putting clone related products in our stores without us knowing.
Executives at the major cattle cloning companies confessed that clone offspring have entered the food supply already—and they have no idea how many—despite the previous FDA ban on food from cloned animals. And U.S. meat producers have been buying semen from prize-winning cloned cattle.
- About.com EnvironmentAt least one Kansas cattle producer also disclosed yesterday that he has openly sold semen from prize-winning clones to many U.S. meat producers in the past few years, and that he is certain he is not alone.
“This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used and is not already in the food chain,” said Donald Coover, a Kansas cattle breeder and veterinarian, in an interview with the Washington Post. “Anyone who tells you otherwise either doesn’t know what they’re talking about, or they’re not being honest.”
- Washington Post
The FDA has decided cloned meat, milk and eggs would be fine for consumers to ingest on a regular basis and we will all do it unknowingly.
Regardless of whether you are pro or anti cloning is irrelevant. The major concern is that there has not been enough research to ensure that eating this would be safe. That is frightening. Who knows what research will find in twenty years!
Whether you would want to try the products or not doesn’t change the fact that this should be a choice we make as consumers. We have to be warned about hormones in milk or whether something is organic so why not tell us if something is made from a cloned animal? How hard would it be to add a “C” to the label?
To learn more and sign the petition, please visit:
Organic Consumers Association
Please check out this link for all the information you need to make an informed decision on this bill and how you can take action if you decide you support it!
http://www.nypirg.org/enviro/bottlebill/action.html