http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa-alert.htm Is it worst that the EPA ios doing such a study on the children of impoverished families, or that they are targeting a predominantly non-white group? Further proof that Monsanto s the devil. please read!!
i heard about this insanity. someone on another thread said that hitler's nazi's did stuff exactly like this, and i have to say, it really seems like things are going downhill fast in good ol' america.
It sounds awful, and I really hate the chemical companies. BUT no one is exposing kids to anything that isn''t ALREADY in their homes. Read this closely. This is simply a data collection study. I am not sure how else we are supposed to get data to find out how these chemicals are harmful. NO ONE is giving children any chemicals that aren't already in their homes. People can protect themselves from things like this by say......not having crap like pesticides in their homes to start out with. Also, this organic group said NOTHING about a control group. No good study is done without a control group. How are they recruiting that and who are these people?
For taking part in these studies, each family will receive $970, a free video camera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of appreciation. a t shirt??!
ACK! the problem isn't necessarily that they are targeting low-income families (we would fit into that category, and i know that toxins in the home are a bad idea--and if i didn't, and someone said to me "we'll give you money if you keep using them" i'd say hell no! and go right home and throw them out), but that they are doing a study on kids at all. Now, if they had asked the parents fill out a questionaire, asking what chemicals had been used and for how long, and then gave the children an exam...wouldn't that have been good enough? I just don't understand why they need tons of documented proof anyway...
That's gross but not suprising at all. I'm suprised they didn't just do it without asking these families..just do it secretly. In the past there have been studies on people where the government actualy had doctors inject toxic poisons into people while they visited the doc telling them they were testing for otehr things and such..the peopel didn't know that they were being injected till a researcher like 20 years later investigated the files and found all tehse people...finding that they all were having all kinds of problems with their bodies but now they knew why...chemicals many years before. it's sick
