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Sparks: Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

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The experts say these chemicals are a systemic problem, which is just their way of saying the corporations put 'em there and the government is too polite to ask 'em to take 'em back out.

Will Rogers

Poison the source. The cradle is now the arena. We build marble monuments to progress while the very sap of our lineage turns to ash in the mouths of our heirs.

Seneca the Younger

What silence has permitted this violation of the most sacred bond of nature, and by what negligence of the public law has the commerce of the few been allowed to corrupt the very lifeblood of our future citizens?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Forget the moral outrage; here is the leverage: a state that allows its own biological reproduction to be sabotaged by industrial interests has already conceded its sovereignty to the merchants who own the poison.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The viriditas that should flow from the mother to the child is being choked by man-made shadows, for when the garden is fouled by greed, the very milk of life becomes a vessel for the world's decay.

Hildegard von Bingen

When the ruler fails to protect the nourishment of the infant, the name of 'protector' is a hollow shell, and the ritual of the family collapses because the foundational duty to the next generation has been traded for profit.

Confucius

Since we have already seen fit to permit the saturation of the maternal breast with industrial waste, it is only logical that we should now tax the infants for the convenience of receiving their chemical supplements so early in life.

Jonathan Swift

Striving to master nature with clever formulas, the people find they have only poisoned the well; the soft milk is defeated by the hard chemical, and the vessel of life is broken by its own contents.

Lao Tzu

Doctors in Seattle discuss the systemic contamination over expensive dinners, while in the nursery, a young mother quietly hums a lullaby, unaware that her own body has become the silent messenger of a cold, industrial betrayal.

Anton Chekhov

It is a grand thing to live in an age of such advanced chemistry that a baby can get a full day's worth of industrial runoff before it even learns how to ask for a glass of water.

Mark Twain

We have created a circuit of waste where the resonance of industrial production interferes with the fundamental frequencies of biological growth, leaking toxic energy into the very beginning of the human sequence.

Nikola Tesla

They tell us the room is being ventilated with the latest reforms, yet the infants are already choking on the air their parents have carefully prepared for them in the name of a better life.

Lu Xun