chemicals improperly stored in underground tanks,
acid rain from industrial release of sulfur dioxide,
landfills, gasoline additives, secondhand smoke,
exhaust from millions of cars on America's highways.

In the U.S. insecticides, herbicides and fungicides
are sprayed directly on vegetables and fruits
and due to contaminated water runoff,
suck up more of these poisons through their roots.

30% of insecticides, 60% of herbicides,
and 90% of fungicides, according to the EPA,
are carcinogenic and their residue's been detected
in 50 to 95% of the food supply in the USA.

These poisons also concentrate in the body tissue
of all the animals we eat, in fact,
95% of human exposure to dioxin
comes from ingesting commerical animal fat.

Ozone levels in American homes
are two to five times those found outside,
due to all the household products and plastics
drowning us in an inescapable toxic chemical tide.

Walk into any dollar-type store where most offerings
are petroleum-based and/or plasticized products.
The smell will make your eyes water and your head ache,
not to mention what it's doing to your lungs.

Environmental toxins work their way up the food chain
primarily by means of bioaccumulation,
in which toxins are absorbed by an organism
faster than its body can eliminate them.

Small fish eat contaminated copepods.
Big fish eat contaminated small fish.
Meat animals ingest chlorine, hormones,
pesticides, fertilizers and antibitotics.

Contaminants concentrate as they're stored in soft tissues
like the brain and fat,which is marbled through meat.
The people eat the fish and the animals
and their soft tissues continue to bioaccumulate.

Even very low levels of toxins in the workplace
can be lethal over a period of time,
since bioaccumulation continues the concentration
and workers' bodily levels of toxic chemicals climb.

Even banned substances no longer used
persist as poisons throughout the environment.
The greater the toxin's half life, the greater the risk
though toxin levels may be low as a relative percent.

Many pesticides prevent cells' mitochondria
from efficient conversion of sugars to energy,
so sugars are stored in fat cells
and contribute to the epidemic of obestity.

In the 80s and early 90s cattle were treated
with systemic organophosphate insecticides
that made the whole body a toxic killing medium
to rid the animal of unwanted parasites.

The UK government mandated a much higher dose
of these organophosphates than any other country,
and subsequently had the world's highest rate
of Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis.

Many such synthetic chemicals
have a powerful estrogenic effect
and are particularly dangerous to children
since they induce alterations in sexual development.

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