In the early 1900's the ration of people contracting cancer was one in fifty. Today, one out of every three people get cancer, and the prediction in the near future is every other person will get cancer. There has been a significant rise in birth defects, infertility, asthma, attention deficit disorder, and central nervous system disorders. We absorb chemicals into our skin while using household products to clean our homes or make our bodies clean and smell good. We swallow small amounts of chemicals when we gargle, or when we eat food from dishes that have been cleaned with chemicals and still contain a thin residue.
Cancer is a political issue.
For instance, under current EPA regulations, as many as 60 cancer-causing pesticides can legally be used in the most commonly eaten foods. Some of these foods are allowed to contain 20 or more carcinogens, making it impossible to measure how much of which ingredient is doing the most damage. Our society as a whole must take responsibility for the environmental contamination that is killing us. The easiest way to take charge is by choosing what we purchase and the way we do things. There are simple natural substitutes if we think about it.