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Watch: A mom and a scientist talk toxins and babies
How does atrazine, a popular pesticide and estrogen-mimicking chemical, affect a growing baby? Watch this video to find out.
Fri, Apr 27 2012 at 8:00 AM
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Like many expectant moms, filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about how the chemicals in her environment would affect her growing baby. She asked her friend, scientist Tyrone Hayes — an expert on the effect of pesticides on amphibians — to explain how a certain pesticides could affect her baby.
Onstage together at TEDWomen, Hayes and Chaffer tell the story of a mom and a scientist piecing together the effects of the pesticide atrazine on human development.
Check it out and let me know what you think...
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Thank you Penelope and Tyrone for delivering this information. Undisclosed ingredients have been playing havoc with human health for too many decades. In the food we eat, the beauty care products we smear and the packaging we use to dispense. Unlisted, secret and cheap chemicals which end up concentrated in human tissue and breast milk. Now that newborns are showing up with industrial chemicals in their umbilical cord - we really need to up the ante on this.
Penelope and Tyrone. What a dynamic presentation. I do grant funded community education on reducing exposure to toxics. This is beautiful, researched and attributed, eloquent stuff.