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(Drum roll.) Bisphenol-A IS bad for kids and human beings in general.

Que sorpresa!

I’m shocked!

Who knew?

Well, actually, most of us in the Green blogosphere had a clue about this way before DHHS. Europeans and Canadians knew it and banned it months ago. Of course, in Europe, unlike in the US, substances are banned if there’s evidence that they MAY pose a threat to human health, not AFTER they’ve been shown to cause harm. What a concept, eh?

The reason we don’t adopt that process in the US is because we’d lose jobs if we did that. Jobs, jobs, jobs, the Republican mantra that we hear so much about is the reason we don’t do a lot of things in the US to protect human health. But, pardon me for asking a stupid question here, are jobs worth harming our health? Will we look back on our career at the chemical plant and say with pride, “Well, my kid may have birth defects, but at least I kept my job and it sure was worth it.”?

Do the countries that make up the European Union seem to be suffering the downturn that the US is right now? Is there any proof that the European Union’s policy of chemical regulation is hurting their economy? Is there any proof that the US policy of letting Big Business influence the FDA and other regulatory agencies is helping our economy and making it competitive with the rest of the world?

The US needs to stop protecting corporations and start protecting its citizens from harmful substances in our food supply and consumer goods. Until it does, calling itself a world leader is just hollow rhetoric.

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