Monday, October 02, 2006

U.S. opposes plan to protect arctic wildlife from bone damage and immune destruction

Researchers have discovered that flame retardants, pesticides and flourinated chemicals are causing weak bones in polar bears, and disrupting the immune systems of other arctic wildlife. The European Union has formulated legislation that that requires companies producing ten tons or more of these chemicals to investigate any possible hazards that could result from shipping, using or disposing of them. This plan is expected to pass by the end of this year.

The only criticism of the EU plan, by the way, comes from the United States of America. Officials in the U.S. are afraid the new legislation may hurt trade.

4 Comments:

It's really sad what congress will close their eyes too. Here in Arkansas, we have these little plants called Tyson food processing and little farms caused Tyson produce farms and if you can close your eyes to the sad lives of the poultry involved in the industry, at least, they should open their eyes to what these farms and processing plants are doing to the enviornment. My god, here in Arkansas our pollution is spilling over into Oklahoma and causing them major health problems. We have polluted our own water supplies and there isn't a day that my husband and I are driving through the country side looking at the beautiful mountains that we don't have a monent where we smell the amonia that comes from having thousands of chicken/turkeys in those factory houses and the smell that fills the air, well, it's noxious, that's what it is. So, yeah, I believe our govenrment doesn't give a crap about the polar bears, hell, they don't give a crap about the clean air and water of our children, why should a polar bear be any different? Republicans suck.

By Blogger zelda1, at 6:19 AM  

When it comes to the suffering of the animals--and for me, the sfufering of creatures of any kind always comes first--the Democrats are no different from the Republicans. One notable exception, surprisingly, was Bill Clinton, who didn't do much, but at least he drastically decreased the number of lab animals tortured by the EPA. Christine Todd Whitman immediately reversed that when she became EPA director.

When it comes to protecting the environment and protecting people from toxins, the Democrats do a better job, but not much better.

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