learning... part of the journey!
The Environmental Working Group presents their findings after testing blood from 10 umbilical cords. MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN - SOME REFERENCES TO ADULT MEDICATIONS. Click the link below to watch.
http://http://www.ewg.org/kid-safe-chemicals-act-blog/kid-safe-chemicals-act-10-americans-video/
IMPORTANT NEWS! BEWARE OF "PINKWASHING"
You have probably heard the expression "greenwashing" (when a company claims to be environmentally friendly, but isn't as earth-friendly as you might think). Well, now there is "pinkwashing" (companies claiming to be advocates for women in the fight against breast cancer, while producing products that contribute to the cause of the disease). Check out this link.....
http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org
Some of the sites that I have discovered on my journey are shown below. I hope these provide you with some useful knowledge in your journey.
1. Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group: http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/
2. This is a great reading site by a terrific e-friendly writer http://www.ecoholic.ca/
3. A trusted source for information about so many things in our world (National Geographic) produces an online new guide to green living: http://www.thegreenguide.com/
4. Check out National Geographics Dirty Dozen article and print off the card that you can carry with you to avoid products that contain harmful chemicals: http://www.thegreenguide.com/personal-care/dirty-dozen
5. Want to offset the emissions from your car? Check out this site of a group who applies offset payments to greenhouse gas emission reduction projects. It's a company based in B.C.; so it's Canadian! http://www.offsetters.ca/?q=node. Or for those who fly, check out www.less.ca (David Suzuki has commented on them in the past as one of the best offsetters....again, Canadian!).
6. Against animal testing? There are some very strong reports from the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine that emphasize that animal testing is an outdated method and often produces inaccurate results. Search it for yourself, type animal testing in their search on the following page: http://www.pcrm.org/pcrmSearch.cfm .
Further, I found this site about Dr. Hadwen Trust. This organization was set up to find better ways to do research that did not require cruel testing on animals. Go right to the source and open your mind to alternative that don't support cruelty. www.scienceroom.org
And one more...an exerpt from The Encyclopedia Britannica Scientific Alternatives to Animal Testing, Updated Report, an exerpt from the book "What Will We Do if We Don’t Experiment on Animals?", the authors address the most “frequently asked question” raised in response to their earlier work. The answer is two-fold: (1) stop relying on tests that don’t work (this course of action would be appropriate even if there were no alternatives to animal testing); and (2) rely instead on numerous recently developed testing techniques and diagnostic methods, all focused on humans rather than animals, including in vitro testing of human cells and tissues, computer modeling of human drug metabolism at the molecular level, and genetic profiling. Other more traditional methods, such as epidemiology and autopsy, have become vastly more fruitful with computer enhancements. (As the authors noted in earlier work, it was epidemiology, not animal testing, that revealed the link between smoking and human lung disease and between folic-acid deficiency and spina bifida.)
The authors argue convincingly that the billions of dollars spent annually on biomedical research in the U.S. should be redirected away from scientifically pointless animal experimentation and toward sounder forms of human-based research.
If you would like to read more (both information in support and against the testing) go to the link provided here: http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2007/09/scientific-alternatives-to-animal-testing-a-progress-report is the link to the page.
