Robert Montgomery

Two of my favorites...




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What if we all die of cancer?

"An effect of this contamination is that we are now one of the most polluted species on the face of this planet... Indeed, we are all so contaminated that if we were cannibals, our meat would be banned from human consumption" (Hundred Year Lie, 5).
This quotation really alarmed me. How is it that we have polluted ourselves? If we were cannibals, we couldn't even consume our own bodies. How can our bodies survive then if we are so badly contaminating? One thing is for sure: our bodies have survived this long, but they will not be able to sustain themselves much longer if we continue to pollute ourselves.
I feel very overwhelmed as I read this article. The first thing that comes to mind is my family: my mom and my brothers. How am I supposed to protect them from this? How can I relay the importance of this information to them? How will they afford the more nutritional food? And where can they even obtain nutritional, local food near where we live? My mother has seen her father and her mother die form cancer.. I do not want to see the same thing happen to her! But is it already too late? Have we gone so far that we can never recover our bodies from the detrimental damage we have already done to them?
It is scary to read that in the past 100 years, the cancer mortality rate has gone from three percent to twenty percent, and diabetes went from .1 percent to 20 percent. These numbers are horrific! How can the rates sky rocket so much in such a short amount of time? This is a tiny amount of time in the history of humans. We are ruining ourselves so quickly. If I really think about it, cancer is almost commonplace in our society today. When we hear that someone has been diagnosed with cancer, it is not entirely alarming because it happens all the time. One day, cancer could be the means of death for all of us. We will all slowly and sadly deteriorate because of our selfishness and ignorance. Furthermore, it is interesting to me that people always talk about "finding the cure to cancer" when we are the ones that practically created it. And we have the answer right in front of our faces! We can stop cancer! Stop spraying chemicals all over our food, stop genetically modifying our seeds, and let nature take its course!

PESTICIDES & "The Circle of Poison"

As I read the article "The Circle of Poison," I am dumbfounded. I can't believe that people choose money over life. The powerful, rich corporations who control the lives of so many underprivileged people are willing to let them die for the sake of money.
As we learn more and more about the FDA, I more often begin to question their validity. It seems to me that the FDA is there just for show, not to protect anyone. The article explained that the FDA rarely seizes or refuses any shipments. Rather, they take a sample of the product and send the rest off to the market. The article even explained that there have been highly dangerous amounts of pesticides in the food that went to the market and then into our bodies. There really was no point in even taking a sample of the product, because either way they could not recall it. These pesticides can lead to cancer. How is the FDA (aka the government) allowing it's own people to get cancer. Our government and we as people are ignoring all of the facts. Not only our the vegetables we consume everyday ridden with carcinogens, but so are many other types of foods and drinks. Although the FDA is allowing this to happen, we cannot blame them solely. We have to also blame ourselves. We do not think about what we eat, we ignore the warning signs, and we do what is convenient. The reality is that we know we are ruining ourselves. If anyone thinks this is false, they are ignoring the evidence. Another reason why I was intrigued by this article is because it was advocating that people become informed and do something about this problem. I respect that the article not only presented the facts, but it went to great lengths to reveal them. The article explained how secretive not only the American government and corporations were, but even third world countries would not reveal their dirty secrets. Why? Money of course, they didn't want to scare off the precious tourists who so diligently and ignorantly pour money into their hands.
After reading this article I am beginning to further question how our world has gotten this far. We are ruining everything that this earth has given us. Since they day the earth was created, we had everything that we needed to survive. But we still want more more more. It has never been enough. I took a break from writing this journal and looked out my window and just watched the rain come down in sheets. It is so natural and pure and beautiful. And we are destroying all of this natural beauty. But more truthfully, we are destroying ourselves. We are a part of the earth, and while we continue to kill it, we kill ourselves.