<p>The weapons of mass destruction have been found, at least in medicine, and only we-the people, the consumers, the patients-can stop their proliferation by rouge corporations and their buddies in government. We have known about them for a long time actual ly, but their origins have been attributed to different sources over time. In antiquity, malevolent deities were thought responsible for the plagues that wiped out city-states and later caused economic disaster for the Roman Empire. In the Middle Ages, G od was believed to be angry with sinful humanity and therefore visited epidemics on them, as he was believed to have done in the biblical stories about the Egypt at the time of Moses. In the mid-19th century, the poor of the vast slums associated with Eu rope's great cities were blamed for spreading mysterious diseases whose bacterial and viral causes were not yet understood by science. Today, we know that the weapons of mass destruction are human-made chemicals, causing our current plague of chronic and degenerative diseases, and they are found in those substances intended to kill bugs, slugs, dandelions as well as in most of the drugs manufactured to fight cancer, impotence, heart disease, arthritis and other illnesses. These chemicals are the basis of an amoral economic system that sells toxic chemicals in all their forms with the promise of perfect lawns, perfect agricultural produ ce, perfectly hygienic kitchens, perfect white laundry, and perfect magic-bullet drugs. In fact, they harm us and are guaranteed to harm coming generations as well. Marketing techniques ensure that the whole truth is as carefully disguised as possible. T hat truth being, that our chemically saturated food, air, water, and soil are the sources of all our diseases-either directly, or by compromising our immune responses, or by giving pathogens the evolutionary advantage.</p>

Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health

Ferrie, Helke

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