| I am angry because The United States has yet | | | | The European Union's government believes it has |
| to pass breast cancer prevention laws. | | | | the responsibility and the ability to protect its |
| Unlike the European Union, which passed a | | | | citizens from this breast cancer epidemic that has |
| cosmetics safety law in 2005, and a chemical | | | | gained momentum in both the US and Europe for |
| safety law in 2006, the U.S. Government | | | | the past fifty years. So why hasn't the US |
| continues to allow known and potentially | | | | passed similar prevention laws? |
| carcinogenic ingredients to be added to our food | | | | "It's the cancer economy stupid."... to paraphrase a |
| supply, our air and water, our cosmetics, our | | | | well-known political truism. |
| body care products, our dry cleaning process, and | | | | Environmental and nutritional science, along with |
| our home and garden supplies. | | | | medical research, is now showing us that 90% of |
| As a result of the European Union's Safe | | | | breast cancer is preventable. This is not good |
| Cosmetics Act, most of the shampoos, body | | | | news for companies within the American Cancer |
| lotions, hair dyes and lipsticks now in our American | | | | Industry; such business entities do not promote |
| bathrooms, are considered unsafe and banned | | | | prevention as they must always find ways to |
| from sale in Europe. Imported non-organic meat | | | | increase surgery numbers, drug sales and radiation |
| and dairy products from the US are also banned. | | | | procedures to meet their quarterly profit goals. |
| This is because most meat and dairy now sold in | | | | Neither the US corporate media, nor our politicians |
| US supermarkets, contain added animal growth | | | | have yet to talk about this huge disconnect |
| hormones, which research shows contribute to | | | | between the industry's need for more cancer |
| breast and other type of cancers. | | | | patients and our growing international body of |
| Meanwhile, U.S., breast cancer rates are the | | | | scientific research that understands how to stop |
| highest in the world. In the 1950's, only 1 in 20 | | | | breast cancer before it starts. The result? |
| American women could expect a breast diagnosis | | | | American women are now living with an |
| in her lifetime. Today, in some EU countries, that | | | | unnecessary breast cancer epidemic. |
| number is one out of 15, in Great Britain it is 1 out | | | | Maybe it's time to haul in the pink ribbons and |
| of 9 and in the U.S. it is now 1 out of 7. | | | | raise some red flags. |