Cancer Action NY Director Donald L. Hassig speaks with Ted Baker, news anchor of the Finger Lakes Morning News about the need for prioritization of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) exposure reduction education in the 2011 NYS Cancer Plan. This is one more front in the war against corporate polluters and their control of government. Creation of the 2011 NYS Cancer Plan provides an opportunity to demand that government start informing the public about the exposure to cancer causing POPs that every one of us has received during the course of the past sixty years. We all have a body burden of POPs, including dioxins, PCBs, PBDEs and fat soluble pesticides like DDT, chlordane and hexachlorobenzene. It is an outrage that the United States federal government and the state governments have been so completely controlled by corporations that state and federal public health agencies work together with the polluters in deceiving the public about POPs exposure cancer risk. Greed has caused commerce to be given top priority in the affairs of our country for many years. The many decisions throughout the past sixty years to give commerce priority over public health have led to a very large amount of exposure to chemicals that cause cancer and resultant cancer outcome in a large fraction of the population. Government must take a role in bringing an end to this pollutant exposure cancer epidemic.
When many people are eating significant quantities of chemicals that cause cancer on a daily basis, it is easy to understand why cancer rates are high in the United States. The explanation of why nothing is being done by government public health agencies to educate the public about this problem is simple. The polluters who control government do not want the public to be told that they have been poisoned and that the poison has caused them to get cancer. The time has come for government to start throwing off the controlling influence of corporations. Making POPs exposure reduction education the number one goal of the 2011 NYS Cancer Plan will send a message to the federal government that New York State has decided to stop taking orders from the corporate overlords.
Finger Lakes News Radios, Ted Baker, News Director and anchor of the Finger Lakes Morning News
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