The Great Chemical Trade Off

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“It’s as though we have struck the ultimate Faustian bargain. In return for all the benefits of our modern society, and all the amazing products of modern life, we have more breast cancer, more testicular cancer and reduced fertility. But I don’t think any young woman who has lost her breasts, or any young man who wishes to be a father and cannot, would willingly endure this for the sake of modern society. It’s a price that is too high for anyone to pay.”‘ (Dr. Devra Lee Davis)`Most people’s reaction would be, why don’t we just simply ban all these chemicals if they are under suspicion and that is the end of the problem. I wish it were that simple. But the chemicals that we are talking about are used in so many of the products that are part of our modern everyday life that to get rid of them would actually introduce a revolution, the like of which we have not seen before in our way of living.’ (Deborah Cadbury, The Feminization of Nature, p.243)

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