Pacific Spirit Marine Institute
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Top Secret! National Security! You DO NOT need to know what you are pissing away!
Do I have a right to know what’s in my urine? How can what I urinate be a matter of National Security? It can’t be!
From fish to meat to baby shampoo to the pipes our water flows through, we are a world increasingly filled with unwanted, unintended chemicals in our bodies and now we are being told we can’t handle the truth.
The truth is, we already know we are being pumped full of pharmaceuticals and chemicals we never signed up for…now the small number of government officials and the other 1% of the public is being made aware.
We already know that 2 of the most powerful antibiotics, ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin, both banned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been getting into the food we eat.
These drugs have been proven to play a major role in the transmission of resistant microorganisms from animals to humans through the food chain.
We also know that Phthalates, a chemical used in many types of plastics, has been linked to testicular cancer and defects of the male reproduction system. Most of the water we drink passes through pipes made of PVC at some point.
In fact 90% of the phthalates produced in the UK go into the production of PVC products. The UK banned the use of products that use Phthalates that come into contact with food stuffs.
A condition known as Testicular Dysgenesis Syndrome (TDS) is the name for the umbrella that covers a long list of male reproductive organ ailments. Cryptorchidism (undescended testicle), Hypospadias (a birth defect of the penis) and impaired sperm production known as spermatogenesis are all being linked to exposure to Phthalates.
Phthalates absorbed by pregnant women is also thought to be leading to the ‘feminization’ of the developing male fetus. The Chemical Bisphenol A, (BPA) is beginning to be linked to ‘gender confusion‘. Virtually everyone tested shows one or more types of Phthalates in their urine.
One of the most in-depth explanations of what and where these chemicals can be found in is in an article ‘down the drain’ that can be found here
Lab rats, babies, fish, mammals of all kinds and now birds have been found to be suffering from the effects of these hormone disrupting chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Labels: BPA, Bisphenol, Bottled Deep-sea Water, FDA, Feminization, Gender, Hypospadias, PVC, Plastic, TDS, antibotics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals
© 2009, Pacific Spirit Marine Institute.
Your Urine is now a matter of National Security.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Plastic doesn’t pollute, people pollute?
It’s no surprise that a member of the American Plastics Council was quoted in 2004 saying the reason plastic is everywhere is because it’s such a good material that does so much so well.
Plastic does do so many things so well. One of the things we are finding out it does so well is cause Testicular Dysgenesis Syndrome (TDS) which has been increasing daily. Plastics that contain Phthalates can migrate into the foods they come into contact with and be ingested and absorbed into our systems.
The chemical BPA, Bisphenol A, which has been used in the manufacturing of some plastics since the 1950’s is now being shown to cause ‘gender confusion’.
BPA has been found to actually pass from generation to generation in utero. This is a topic of conversation best left to other forums, but cosider the fact that there may be less gender confusion in underdeveloped countries where less plastic has been used customarily in every aspect of life for generations.
We have now been exposed to so much plastic that we are urinating the stuff!
Why would anyone be surprised to find there is a bundle of trash, estimated to weigh 3.5 MILLION tons of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean. 80% of this heap, larger than twice the size of Texas, is made up from plastic debris. Debris that is blown washed and flooded out to sea.
Tons of plastic that doesn’t find its way into land fills finds it way to the coastlines and is carried out to see into a giant vortex of currents.
Shame on you, shame on me. Shame on all of us.
We are being told at this point cleaning this mess up isn’t an option. Continuing to live as though there is no tomorrow, and letting the petroleum and plastics industry continue to dictate our futures isn’t an option.
Not anymore.
Labels: BPA, Bisphenol, Ocean, Ocean Habitat, Phthalates, Plastic, Trash, Urine, ecosystems
© 2009, Pacific Spirit Marine Institute.
3.5 MILLION tons of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean!
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Lief Toudal Pedersen, at the Danish National Space Center is saying we have lost about 1/2 million square miles of Arctic ice since 2005. He is feeling we will loose more ice faster than expected.
The Arctic ice is the at its lowest level since images were first taken in 1978.
Now a lip-smacking development seems to be placed upon the plates of nearly the entire world of commerce. An open Northwest Passage would cut the trip from the eastern Atlantic to the western Pacific in 1/2.
At this point it is believed that the route will not be open all year, but many scientists do believe that will not be the case in the future. There are still vast amounts of sea ice, multi-year ice packs, that remain even throughout the summer. At the rate we are seeing ice disappear this may not be the case in the near future.
Will less miles traveled by ships mean less pollution? This is naturally the case that will be made by commerce. Anyone that has ever passed by the smoking lounge in an airport when the door is being opened can’t agree with that notion.
Ships rolling through the small Passage, in large numbers will no doubt have the same effect on the environment as placing 15 smokers in a contained room.
Without having any science to back up my assertions I see a world of problems that will open up when the Northwest Passage is opened up to regular, reliable shipping schedules. In my mind, it isn’t a far reach to compare Italian Granita to the Arctic ice. In a granita liquid is poured into a container and placed in the freezer. When ice crystals begin to form a fork is run through the crystals before they have a chance to freeze solid. Running a fork over an ice cube that is already frozen certainly has a very different affect on that ice. The constant scraping and agitation never allows the granita to freeze into a solid hunk of ice.
Would not constant shipping through the Northwest passage produce the same result? Now consider constantly stirring the granita with a hot fork.
Beyond not letting the ice rest so that if it can refreeze it might refreeze; what about the dangers of oil spills, accidents and waste being dropped by ships along the way?
There is no question that the hole in the earths protective Ozone layer is in the same neighborhood as well. Burdening the already weakened Ozone layer in that area will have profound and incalculable results. How could there be any doubt that ship after ship spewing pollutants directly under our already weakened protective Ozone layer will only create more problems?
Good for business, bad for the environment and the entire world. It shouldn’t take the worlds scientific community to figure this one out.
Labels: Bisphenol, Environment, Global Warming, Northwest Passage, oil spill
© 2009, Pacific Spirit Marine Institute.
Northwest Passage Open
Monday, August 13, 2007
Let’s see if we can wrap our minds around this scenario! It turns out that scientific studies have now proven exposure to BPA, bisphenol A, creates all kinds of reporductive ‘confussion’.
BPA is, but one more toxic chemical that has been absorbed into the envirnment and into humans…for generations. BPA is the substance used to create the slightly stiffer plastic items we use daily to take in much of our food and drink.
First let’s address only a few ways this toxin gets inside of us.
Many of the foods we eat come from cans that are coated on the inside with BPA to prevent the leaching of metal into the foods. We’re jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. Speaking of heat, studies show that heating items that are made with BPA increases its ‘leaching’ or contamination with the BPA molecules. Millions of baby bottles are made with plastic containing BPA. As any parent knows baby bottles are continually exposed to heat. Many of todays water bottles are also manufactured using BPA. Beer and wine fermentation vats and even sealants used to protect children from cavities. The exposure to BPA is ubiquitous. There is no possilbe way for me to list all the ways this toxin is absorbed by humans.
To put the use of BPA into some perspective, more than 6 billion, that’s billion with a b, are produced yearly. The wide use of this chemical started in the 1950. Simply put, for more than a half century we have been slowly changeing the face of our own genitic make up, now reaching critical mass.
Now let’s look at just one ramification of BPA, which is quite simply amazing. Females reproductive eggs are established, formed and grown while still in the womb. When a woman has been exposed as we all have since the 1950’s to BPA, not only were our grandmothers eggs, ie, our parents who started growing their reproductive systems in utero and then in turn our own, but our children are now representing the 4th generation of BPA ’scrambled eggs’.
To understand this completely I’ve drawn a comparison from BPA in human ‘eggs’ to pearls. As a small particle of sand is at the core of a pearl, these BPA molecules are at the very beginning of the formation of our eggs and sperm. What BPA was absorbed by our grandmothers, was passed then in utero to our parents, this before they were ever exposed to any outside products containting BPA. You can see how the passing on, and the continuous exposoure of this chemical is having a cumulitive effect on all of us.
More than 700 published studies have been decrying the use of BPA. These studies have been summarily dismissed over the years by ‘experts’ in the field of plastics.
Studies have shown in lab rats that low doses of BPA have caused gender confussion. The feminazation of males, and the defeminazation of females, are giving the scientific community great cause for concern. Females when exposed to far lower doses of BPA than the equivilant ‘recomended safe’ exposure to humans caused them to take on masquline traits such as agression, sexual prowess and a lack of maternal nurturing towards their offspring. The females spent far less time in the nest, and took on male traits.
Bisphenol A is only one of far too many toxins we are exposing ourselves and future generations to that are used by us daily. It’s time for us to start turning the tide back to clean wholesome glass containers for our food and drink.
Labels: BPA, Bisphenol, Feminization, Human Reproduction, Plastic, Poison, Toxin
© 2009, Pacific Spirit Marine Institute.
Gay by Nature or Nurture debate takes a backseat to environmental toxins!
