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PHILIP SHABECOFF AND ALICE SHABECOFF
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Lauren (with little sister Hailey) suffered from cleft lip and palate associated with a commercial solvent. Sarah, exposed to a radioactive by-product of nuclear energy in the water, has a brain tumor.
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Justin, exposed to a chemical used in synthetic rubber production, died of a rare cancer.
Sean overcame problems of dyslexia and learning disabilities.
One of Every Three Children Of America’s 73 million children, nearly one of every three suffers from a serious disorder. Cancer: 40,000 Lead poisoning: 600,000 Birth defects: 2.5 million Asthma: 6 million Learning and behavioral disabilities: 12 million Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
One of Every Two Pregnancies One of every two pregnancies ends either in fetal death or a less than healthy child. National Research Center, Scientific Frontiers in Developmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment, National Academies of Science Press, Washington, DC, 2000
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Increases in Illnesses Childhood Cancer Increases 1970s -- Present 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Brain Cancer 35%Increase
Acute lymphocytic All childhood cancers leukemia 67%Increase 47%Increase
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Increases in Illnesses Premature Births, Asthma & Autism 1980s-Present 300% 250% 200% 150% 100% 50% 0% Premature Births 32%Increase (from1 in 10.6 to 1 in 8)
Asthma rate 141%Increase (from1 in 28 to 1 in 11.5)
Autism 273%increase (from1 in 560 to 1 in 150)
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More problems emerging
Increasing difficulty in conceiving Falling sperm quantity and quality More low birth weight, smaller head size Declining proportion of boys to girls
Increasing sexual deformities among boys Increasing demasculinization Increasing endometriosis among teenage girls Earlier and earlier sexual development among girls
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US industrial chemical production: 750% increase since 1980 Pounds produced (trillions)
Industrial Chemical Production 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
1980: 200 million
Present: 15 trillion
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Pounds of pesticides used:
Pounds(billions)
1,125% increase since 1960s 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0
1960s: 400 million
Present: 4.5 billion
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Number of Pesticide Ingredients 1000
Number of Ingredients
900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0
1960s: 200
Present: 900
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Increasing Profits 700
Value of the chemical industry
Value (billions of $)
600 500 400 300 200 100 0 1962: $2 Billion
2005: $635 Billion
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Chemicals in umbilical cords Chemicals found in babies’ umbilical cords: Mercury Teflon Flame retardants Dioxin (a by-product of incinerating plastic) Air pollution particles 30 different kinds of pesticides DDT PCBs Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
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“We are paying for the sins of our fathers, who introduced these chemicals, not knowing or caring how bad or hazardous they were.” Dr. William Jameson, National Toxicology Program, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
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Costs of Care
$54.9 billion a year nationally to care for children with four illnesses – lead poisoning, cancer, asthma, learning/ behavioral disorders
$521 million a year for California’s costs associated with smoglinked childhood illnesses
$1.1 to $1.6 billion a year for Massachusetts’s costs associated with toxic-linked childhood illnesses
$400 million a year for Montana’s costs associated with toxiclinked childhood illnesses
$77.3 billion a year nationally for special education
$26.2 billion a year nationally to care for premature babies
$12 billion per child to Copyright 2008with Philip andone Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved care for children
Indirect costs to the future If the current generation of children loses a mere 5 points average IQ, the outcome on a national level is devastating. Instead of 100 as the mean, the IQ shifts down to 95. That will nearly double the number of retarded adults from 6 million to 9.4 million, and more than halve the number of gifted, from 6 million to 2.4 million.
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Not just little adults Children are not just little adults. Their developing mind and body are exquisitely vulnerable. A misstep in the creation of trillions of cells at precisely the right time, precisely the right rate, and in precisely the right sequence--each is a window of vulnerability.
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Genes and the environment
Genetics loads the gun, environment pulls the trigger. Jill Neimark
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From conception to old age Environmental exposures in early life can set a person’s cellular code for life and can cause illness at any time from conception until old age. Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases and prostate and breast cancers are examples.
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What Causes What
Cancer Particulates in air pollution Formaldehyde Benzene Butadiene Pesticides Dioxins Food additives Arsenic
Brain-behavioral disorders such as autism, ADHD, Tourettes and mental retardation heavy metals: lead, mercury, cadmium, manganese PCBs Pesticides Flame retardants
*Chronic illnesses are not caused by one single agent but by multiple interacting agents.
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The Amish The Amish, who farm without pesticides, in Ohio have one in 15,000 children with autism. The Amish in Pennsylvania’ s Lancaster County have zero cases. Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Nuclear waste such as tritium can leak into water supply
Mercury Lead Hydrochloric acid Chromium Arsenic Sulfur dioxide
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Scene of the Crime
Trihalomethane, a chlorine-by product Fluoride 95 components of treated human sewage, including cosmetics, household cleaners, pharmaceuticals such as Prozac, hormone replacements and antibiotics Teflon TCE or other industrial solvents Pesticide mixtures Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Formaldehyde Flame retardants
PVC, polyvinyl chloride made of petroleum on a base of chloride Phthalates When incinerated turns into dioxins
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Diesel exhaust, made Box made of vinyl, up of 40 toxic with bisphenol A and chemicals including lead benzene, butadiene, Snacks may be and formaldehyde, as processed with well as nitrogen dioxide additives, artificial and the other harmful colors (synthetics particles that make up from petroleum) soot. Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff,made All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Arsenic Antibiotics Chicken feed includes ground-up parts of dead chickens
Weaned often on blood Bovine growth hormones/steroids including testosterone & estrogen Fed grain, not grass Pesticides & poultry litter in feed
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Atrazine, an herbicide Genetically modified seeds
Rocket fuel (Perchlorate) Pesticides
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Co-conspirators
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Witnesses for the Defense
Scientists-for hire Product defense companies Public relations and advertising firms Lobbyists Law firms Legislators
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
The American Chemistry Council, the chemical industry's trade association, gave a $50 million contract to the Ogilvy Mather public relations company for ads aimed at young married women--potential mothers.
Small text reads, “It is the plastic pipes, the chlorination technology, the things that help make the water safe and refreshing. It is American Chemistry.”
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Solutions
Educate yourself Make changes in your home Join with others Lobby for legislation Vote
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Lauren (with little sister Hailey) suffered from cleft lip and palate associated with a commercial solvent. Sarah, exposed to a radioactive by-product of nuclear energy in the water, has a brain tumor.
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Justin, exposed to a chemical used in synthetic rubber production, died of a rare cancer.
Sean overcame problems of dyslexia and learning disabilities.
One of Every Three Children Of America’s 73 million children, nearly one of every three suffers from a serious disorder. Cancer: 40,000 Lead poisoning: 600,000 Birth defects: 2.5 million Asthma: 6 million Learning and behavioral disabilities: 12 million Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
One of Every Two Pregnancies One of every two pregnancies ends either in fetal death or a less than healthy child. National Research Center, Scientific Frontiers in Developmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment, National Academies of Science Press, Washington, DC, 2000
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Increases in Illnesses Childhood Cancer Increases 1970s -- Present 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Brain Cancer 35%Increase
Acute lymphocytic All childhood cancers leukemia 67%Increase 47%Increase
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Increases in Illnesses Premature Births, Asthma & Autism 1980s-Present 300% 250% 200% 150% 100% 50% 0% Premature Births 32%Increase (from1 in 10.6 to 1 in 8)
Asthma rate 141%Increase (from1 in 28 to 1 in 11.5)
Autism 273%increase (from1 in 560 to 1 in 150)
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
More problems emerging
Increasing difficulty in conceiving Falling sperm quantity and quality More low birth weight, smaller head size Declining proportion of boys to girls
Increasing sexual deformities among boys Increasing demasculinization Increasing endometriosis among teenage girls Earlier and earlier sexual development among girls
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
US industrial chemical production: 750% increase since 1980 Pounds produced (trillions)
Industrial Chemical Production 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
1980: 200 million
Present: 15 trillion
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Pounds of pesticides used:
Pounds(billions)
1,125% increase since 1960s 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0
1960s: 400 million
Present: 4.5 billion
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Number of Pesticide Ingredients 1000
Number of Ingredients
900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0
1960s: 200
Present: 900
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Increasing Profits 700
Value of the chemical industry
Value (billions of $)
600 500 400 300 200 100 0 1962: $2 Billion
2005: $635 Billion
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Chemicals in umbilical cords Chemicals found in babies’ umbilical cords: Mercury Teflon Flame retardants Dioxin (a by-product of incinerating plastic) Air pollution particles 30 different kinds of pesticides DDT PCBs Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
“We are paying for the sins of our fathers, who introduced these chemicals, not knowing or caring how bad or hazardous they were.” Dr. William Jameson, National Toxicology Program, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Costs of Care
$54.9 billion a year nationally to care for children with four illnesses – lead poisoning, cancer, asthma, learning/ behavioral disorders
$521 million a year for California’s costs associated with smoglinked childhood illnesses
$1.1 to $1.6 billion a year for Massachusetts’s costs associated with toxic-linked childhood illnesses
$400 million a year for Montana’s costs associated with toxiclinked childhood illnesses
$77.3 billion a year nationally for special education
$26.2 billion a year nationally to care for premature babies
$12 billion per child to Copyright 2008with Philip andone Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved care for children
Indirect costs to the future If the current generation of children loses a mere 5 points average IQ, the outcome on a national level is devastating. Instead of 100 as the mean, the IQ shifts down to 95. That will nearly double the number of retarded adults from 6 million to 9.4 million, and more than halve the number of gifted, from 6 million to 2.4 million.
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Not just little adults Children are not just little adults. Their developing mind and body are exquisitely vulnerable. A misstep in the creation of trillions of cells at precisely the right time, precisely the right rate, and in precisely the right sequence--each is a window of vulnerability.
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Genes and the environment
Genetics loads the gun, environment pulls the trigger. Jill Neimark
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
From conception to old age Environmental exposures in early life can set a person’s cellular code for life and can cause illness at any time from conception until old age. Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases and prostate and breast cancers are examples.
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
What Causes What
Cancer Particulates in air pollution Formaldehyde Benzene Butadiene Pesticides Dioxins Food additives Arsenic
Brain-behavioral disorders such as autism, ADHD, Tourettes and mental retardation heavy metals: lead, mercury, cadmium, manganese PCBs Pesticides Flame retardants
*Chronic illnesses are not caused by one single agent but by multiple interacting agents.
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
The Amish The Amish, who farm without pesticides, in Ohio have one in 15,000 children with autism. The Amish in Pennsylvania’ s Lancaster County have zero cases. Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Nuclear waste such as tritium can leak into water supply
Mercury Lead Hydrochloric acid Chromium Arsenic Sulfur dioxide
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Trihalomethane, a chlorine-by product Fluoride 95 components of treated human sewage, including cosmetics, household cleaners, pharmaceuticals such as Prozac, hormone replacements and antibiotics Teflon TCE or other industrial solvents Pesticide mixtures Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Formaldehyde Flame retardants
PVC, polyvinyl chloride made of petroleum on a base of chloride Phthalates When incinerated turns into dioxins
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Diesel exhaust, made Box made of vinyl, up of 40 toxic with bisphenol A and chemicals including lead benzene, butadiene, Snacks may be and formaldehyde, as processed with well as nitrogen dioxide additives, artificial and the other harmful colors (synthetics particles that make up from petroleum) soot. Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff,made All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Arsenic Antibiotics Chicken feed includes ground-up parts of dead chickens
Weaned often on blood Bovine growth hormones/steroids including testosterone & estrogen Fed grain, not grass Pesticides & poultry litter in feed
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Scene of the Crime
Atrazine, an herbicide Genetically modified seeds
Rocket fuel (Perchlorate) Pesticides
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Co-conspirators
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Witnesses for the Defense
Scientists-for hire Product defense companies Public relations and advertising firms Lobbyists Law firms Legislators
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
The American Chemistry Council, the chemical industry's trade association, gave a $50 million contract to the Ogilvy Mather public relations company for ads aimed at young married women--potential mothers.
Small text reads, “It is the plastic pipes, the chlorination technology, the things that help make the water safe and refreshing. It is American Chemistry.”
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
Solutions
Educate yourself Make changes in your home Join with others Lobby for legislation Vote
Copyright 2008 Philip and Alice Shabecoff, All Rights Reserved
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