Since we left, one cousin died from Hodgkin s disease at the age of 31. Another cousin died from a rare form of brain cancer at the age of 35. I know that it is difficult to prove that corporate violence killed members of my family. Maybe it s a bad gene pool. On the other hand, I also know from reading the work of public health physicians such as Philip Landrigan, chair of the Department of Community Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, that toxic chemicals in the environment are important, widespread, proven causes of human disease.
Cancer is on the increase in the United States.
Breast cancer kills 50,000 women in the United States every year. Bella Abzug and Greenpeace recently released a study linking toxic pollution to breast cancer. The report found that women with the highest concentrations of chlorine-based pesticides and other chemicals in their blood and fat have been found to have breast cancer risks four to 10 times higher than women with lower concentrations. But the bill has little chance in the Corporate Congress. Leaders of the Congress openly defend the corporate criminals to which they are firmly attached.