Also a heavy threat are certain cribs with up and down ratcheting side gates in which some infants and toddlers have gotten caught and choked to death as the gates fell coming down on the necks of children like a blunt edged Guillotine.
Dr. Helen Binns, a professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine at Northwestern University's medical school warned, "By far and away historically, the major concern about sources for lead has been your home." "You may handle your toy for a few moments a day, but if you're in a home going through remodeling, you generate dust throughout your whole house." "So you're exposed everywhere you go, not just when you're playing."
Dr. Garry Gardner, chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on injury, violence and poison prevention, says, "I think people don't always worry about the right things." He is precisely correct but his concerns do not correlate with mine. No, mine are wider and more far reaching than the product origins and dangers than those he was targeting. I am focusing on even more sinister and culpable product developers, sales and application organizations, which are using the same fear tactics as the Bushites use to scare citizens into giving away rights and treasury for pork-barrel No-Bid contracts. I am focusing on the sales through complicity, duplicity and criminal activities, which are curiously not covered by most laws according to police and prosecuting attorneys, whose political interests are as suspect as their creativity in protecting the public is low.
Those who are anti-abortion, as I am, but pro mosquito spraying and cosmetic lawn care toxins, have their thinking caps twisted, bith are a death sentence, for not only the fetuses and infants we try to save, but children and adults of all ages. I speak of products being forced upon communities or sold to unsuspecting millions of Americans, to which full disclosure of the dangers they face in such products are not forthcoming and are fought like a plague, which their products truly are. I speak of products of THE CULTURE OF DEATH, lawn care pesticides/herbicides, which lead eventually, and sometimes more quickly to a variety of health and life threatening dangers, such as Parkinson's, Alzheimers, a variety of cancers such as breast cancer in women and testicular and prostate cancer in men. In 96% of the women who suffered breast cancer, the fatty tissues surrounding the cancers, found by doctors who were alert enough to check, were loaded with pesticide/herbicide residue.
Using caustic, toxic chemicals as though they were as harmless as pouring drinking water on one's lawns, when in fact what they are spraying or having sprayed on their lawns are poisons, originally used by the Nazi's to "exterminate," humans-Jews in WW II concentration camps, only diluted enough to, in some, delay death and serious injury, so that they might be used on lawns today, by those uninformed or who think poisons are a political rather than a health issue.
The other major health issue is spraying for adult mosquitoes, which kills only 1%-7% of the adult mosquitoes acting as a toxic panacea. Several communities in Illinois refuse to use it because every time spraying is done so many call city halls because they are ill. In DuPage County Illinois, where the breast cancer rate is among the highest in the nation they spray constantly and their growing call list of those who become ill is easily five time shire than those uninformed who are called by the Mosquito spraying firms. "Nuisance" calls prompting the company to spray yet again because being bitten is an "inconvenience" to those who are uninformed about the repercussions of the intoxication of the toxic products. What intoxication? Short term effects varies from High Blood pressure, asthma, sleepiness, listlessness, forgetfulness, confusion, muscular ticks in various muscle groups, headache, diarrhea, cramps, weak muscles and softer teeth, couching fits, anger, teeth-grinding, aggressive tendencies, violence and irritability.
Long terms effects; Parkinson's, Cancers of several sorts, Alzheimers, in fact TMJ (Tempromandibular Joint) can also be activated by pesticides which are a neuro-muscular irritant, electro-chemical message blocker. Some people suffer from "Summer Stomach" or "Summer Bowel Disorder," and many physicians mistake it for IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) or eating too much of the wrong foods on summer. In addition, the impeding of Cholinesterase and the interference with Cholinergic activity (Ant-Cholinergic) is the cause of many bowel, intestinal disorders and one of the major interfering elements are pesticides. Stubbornness and disinformation and lack of information is killing and injuring many Americans most of them children and infants.
Insurance Companies waste tens of millions of dollars on medical testing, treatment, and even end-of-life drugs because of the flagrant use of Pesticides and Herbicides.
There have been no studies made about the interference and the negative interaction of pesticides and herbicides on prescription drug users, and it is only logical and stands to reason that there is such interference. The entire body is activated and dependent upon neuro-muscular systemic wellness, the interference of Pesticides and herbicides can do nothing but cause damage. These probably are also culpable in auto accidents and acts of violent crime, because of the neuro-muscular irritation of a primarily useless and much overused set of products, which are also a danger to wild life.
However, as always, MONEY is at the root of all evil and people are abysmally ill informed about such products in which pesticide manufacturers and appliers make huge fortunes. Everything we buy we like labeled so we can make informed decisions, but no one knows a thing about the chemicals that are used in lawn care and mosquito spraying. One look through the warnings on the packages should tell most people with a functioning IQ one thing-don't use these products! They are, even in small doses, harmful and if everyone in your neighborhood is using them they can and eventually will be, devastating and for many, over the long term, deadly.
Wake up America, say no to pesticides/herbicides, as well as lead paint and dangerous toys, unless you enjoy a shorter lifespan, and the years of end-of-life in suffering, pain and depression, with a mush-brain or the horrors of cancer. This is not a political but a health issue and if you are too stubborn to think of yourselves think at least, about your children and grandchildren.
Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8. Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant position in college. He holds a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Anthropology, Architectural Design Advertising. MA's in Cultural Anthro, Painting and more. After being tenured he taught; architecture, anthropology, Theology, advertising, painting and drawing, entrepreneuring and Creative Profit Making. He produced a star-studded Music festival, had a radio talk show in Chicago, and cable TV show. Now, retired from Teaching, he paints, writes, and pursues other ventures.
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You are not only a hunk, but a great investigative and insightful writer. Thanks for your stuff. PS I sent you an email w/my picture and contact info to your art site will you call me? Aggie
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