The Toronto Star-BRAVE VOICES CAN'T BE SILENCED IN BREAST CANCER BATTLE

[ttweed@wildrockies.org (Tony Tweedale)]

  >Date:    Wed, 24 Sep 1997 10:36:03 -0400
  >From:    "Andi DesJardins (fka Hosler)" <Enviroknow@AOL.COM>
  >Subject: FOR DISCUSSION: The Environment and Breast Cancer
  >
  >Hi folks!
  >
  >Following is a press release about a documentary focusing on environmental
  >factors in breast cancer.  Looking at the last paragraph, lets spend a little
  >time discussing information and misinformation.  When it comes to a political
  >debate, which side has more merit, 'industry' or 'advocacy'?  As dissaffected
  >observers, what clues can we look for to establish credibility?
  >
  >Peace,
  >Andi
  >
  >
  >AGNET SEPTEMBER 23,  1997 - II
  >BRAVE VOICES CAN'T BE SILENCED IN BREAST CANCER BATTLE
  >September 21, 1997
  >The Toronto Star
  >Michelle Landsberg
  >Landsberg begins in this column by asking when you pop a juicy, red,
  >cancer-fighting strawberry into your mouth, do you ever stop to think
  >about strawberry fields drenched in toxic methyl bromide?
  >She also says that Roundup Ready soybeans mean the entire soybean crop can
  >be drenched in the stuff.
  >Landsberg says there's so much we don't know about our physical world and
  >about the possible links between our poisoned environment and the rising
  >rate of many kinds of cancer, and that the solution rests in political
  >action.
  >She goes on to promote a Canadian-made documentary called Exposure,
  >co-produced by Martha Butterfield and Francine Zuckerman, which, she says,
  >establishes some of the key findings that link toxins with breast cancer.
  >The documentary is accompanied by a printed study guide that, according to
  >Landsberg, raises questions about PVC plastics and other hormone
  >disruptors found in common household detergents and cleaners - and offers
  >wholesome alternatives.
  >Landsberg goes on to argue that the arguments linking pollution and breast
  >cancer are just beginning to filter out to the wider world - and already a
  >business-inspired backlash has detonated smoke bombs of disinformation,
  >with Zuckerman quoted as saying, ``As usual, just like with Rachel Carson
  >when she wrote Silent Spring, it's their science that's attacked as
  >unsound.''
  >
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  >End of HEALTHE Digest - 23 Sep 1997 to 24 Sep 1997
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