If you lived on a mountain top in Montana, bought only organic food, and became a vegetarian, you and your children would still be at risk. Here are the reasons why. Dioxin can travel miles from a garbage or medical waste incinerator stack on air currents before it lands on the grass. A cow then eats the dioxin deposits along with the grass. That dioxin is stored in the cow's fat and when our children drink the milk or eat the beef, they also ingest dioxin.
Mothers pass a portion of their dioxin and other chemicals to their infants when breast feeding.
Mother's milk has a high fat content which stores her life-time exposures to chemicals. Even though unwanted chemicals are passed through breast milk, it is still better to breast feed your infant. And, EPA studies conclude that the U.S. population already has enough dioxin in our bodies to cause adverse health effects. This does not have to be. We can make paper and plastics without chlorine.