--> Focusing more on human health consequences , the purpose of this project is to explore the effects of industrialization upon society through the release of EDCs.

-->Criticizing the reckless abandon of unregulated agricultural and industrial operations has become quite popular, but how many people would forsake all the modernity that has resulted?



Friday, December 2, 2011

The Male Predicament

Also it views like your grandmothers post-mortem will video, this is an excellent introduction to the dilemna by Theo Colborn.


Drugs in Drinking Water
By Keefe, The Denver Post  -  3/12/2008














Commentary

00:40 She touches on the medical anthropology issue of pharmaceutical advertisement juxtaposed with the pharmaceutical secret illuded to in the above cartoon. The pharmaceutical industry is actually not alone nor premier in this, since as I address in my paper "Medcial Anthropology of EDCs" this potential threat to human/animal wellbeing includes cosmetics, food, water, livestock, transpotation, and potentiall any procuct market that relies on chemical industry for production, processing, and etc. in addition to pharmacuticals. Virtually every arena of our lives is suspect and the implications in our capitalist society are that it has never been profitable for a business to be environmentally proactive, except where such a display of eco-friendliness yeilds consumer enticement: a change in production processes such as Nalgene's switch to BPA-free plastic or from gas to electric may be costly, inefficient, questionable, or bankrupting.

04:15 EDCs can be found in every human tissue from blood to amniotic fluid

06:57 Although modern advancements in the biotech and pharmacy sectors is amazing, many diseases have been curiously on the rise including these listed.

8:00 Trending drops in sperm count and testosterone have been reported for the Northern Hemisphere.

9:45 Those who pioneered discovery of endocrine disruption are ignored by national health avisory in favor of "prestigious" corporate toxicologists of conflicting interests.

11:55 Crude oil byproduct derrivates are in virtually every consumer product on the market -plastics.

31:00 -35:05 One again we are reminded of the intimate network of capitalism, industry, consumerism, and public knowledge that our society is built upon. Corporate interests end up guiding public knowledge and policy.


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