It's breast cancer awareness month, and the walks and the marches continue. Why haven't we made any progress on prevention?
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about chemicals in food packaging linked to breast cancer, the EPA refusing to regulate PFAS chemicals in agricultural fertilizer, and how fluoride can impact brain development and IQ. Then in a Green Street recording from several years ago, Dr. Samantha King, author of “Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy,” talks about the pink ribbon campaigns and why we don’t hear more about the environmental links to the disease.
Links from the Interview
Watch the "Pink Ribbons Inc." movie on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVFNZNF4quo
Buy the book, Pink Ribbons, Inc. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816648993/pink-ribbons-inc/
Links from the News
Chemicals linked to breast cancer found in food packaging: https://www.ehn.org/plastic-chemicals-that-lead-to-breast-cancer-2669239313.html
The EPA days it won't regulate PFAS in fertilizer: https://peer.org/epa-regulate-pfas-sewage-sludge-farmland/
Court orders EPA to regulate fluoride in drinking water: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4898893-epa-ordered-address-fluoride-drinking-water-iq/
Also check out our recent podcast "Breast Cancer in a Bottle," with Polly Marshall. https://www.greenstreetnews.org/post/breast-cancer-in-a-bottle-with-polly-marshall
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