[RSBob]

My father is a physician, and as a result associates with several other medical disciplines, including oncology. The common thread in medicine is that if you don't die of stroke, heart disease, and a myrad of other ills, then cancer in one of several forms will definitely be waiting for you. Most of our pets die of cancer because they have good medical care and outlive their natural life expectancies, with malignent cells waiting in the wings.

From what I have studied, cancer producing toxins are becoming more prevalent in imported food (ever eat at a Red Lobster? The majority of their food is farmed in China and loaded with antibiotics (a bad thing) growth hormones (another bad thing) and tainted food. Cancer producing toxins are present in our plastic cooking containers (Tupperware, Gladware, etc), in our drinking water, soil, air, and even in our clothing - ever buy wrinkle free shirts or pants - they stay that way because they are impregnated with formaldahyde. Dryer sheets and fabric softners - are of course made of chemicals, and if you do any reading about their health effects you will stop using them immediately. Our exposure is constant and increasing as controls are loosened - the premise of this thread, more people dieing sooner. I feel that as consumers, we need to say 'no' politicians who are bought and paid for by corporations which tirelessly work to reduce controls which safeguard our health and the health of our children to the benefit of corporate execs and their shareholders. Yes cancer will get us eventually, but better later than sooner so someone can make a dime.