News & Updates
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Autism Meltdown. What should WE do?
I saw an autistic meltdown in the middle of the grocery store today. Yes, it was autism, flapping arms, squaking nosies, ears covered and the mostly grown boy squatting on the cold floor rocking back and forth. Most pretended as if it wasn’t happening. I locked eyes with the mother briefly, and felt a very
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Evidence that Agricultural Pesticides and Other Toxic Chemicals Are Poisoning Us
Two new reports published in recent weeks add to the already large and convincing body of evidence, accumulated over more than half a century, that agricultural pesticides and other toxic chemicals are poisoning us. Both reports issue scathing indictments of U.S. and global regulatory systems that collude with chemical companies to hide the truth from
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What Happened To The Immunization Exemption Bill?
Vaccine Exemption Bill 1050 Summary: The Health Department’s mandated immunization exemption form falls outside the scope of law. The law requires a simple statement from parents advising schools they are taking their legally acceptable religious or philosophical exemption to vaccine mandates. The health department form intends to ‘educate’ parents of the risk of childhood diseases
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Erin got the Gardasil Shot, then she got Cervical Cancer
When healthy Erin Crawford was in college she was asked to take the Gardasil vaccine as part of a trial. Having lost several family members to cancer, it was a no-brainer for her. To her shock, within 24 hours she was violently sick and vomiting. She would later develop cervical cancer within 18 months, the
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EPA Scraps Scheduled Ban of Widely Used Pesticide Known to Harm Kids’ Brains
In one of his first major decisions as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, Scott Pruitt sided with the pesticide lobby over scientists Wednesday in an eleventh-hour decision to abort the agency’s proposal to ban chlorpyrifos—an insecticide that at small doses can harm children’s brains and nervous systems—from use on food crops. Pruitt and the
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Potent carcinogen contaminated drinking water used by millions
According to a new nationwide Gallup survey, Americans are really worried about contaminants in their drinking water. Nearly two-thirds of Americans have “a great deal” concern about pollution of tap water, and 57 percent worry “a great deal” about pollution of the nation’s rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Concern hasn’t been this high since 2001. The