Pesticides and Health

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There still some people debate the harmful impact of chemical pesticides on human being health. Not to mention its strong relation to Cancer is in denail!

We know that more than 90% of the sprayed pesticides miss the target pest and end up in the environment thru drift and run off into water courses.
The following research links were picked at random from the Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog:

Study Finds Controversial Pesticide May Contribute to Obesity

New Study Links Fungicides to Parkinson’s Disease

Study Shows Herbicides Increase Risk of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Study Links Women’s Brain Cancer to Herbicide Use

Gender-Bending Herbicide Contaminates Lakes Far from Use Sites

Pyrethroid Pesticide Affects Puberty at Low Levels

Testicular Defects in Newborns Linked to Prenatal Chemical Exposure

Arsenic Exposure Linked to Diabetes

Living Downstream is a good scientific source for the impact of pesticides on the human health. It was reviewed by Peter Montague.

Free the Iranian Doctors

from the TAC website: http://www.tac.org.za/community/node/2452

6 January, 2009 - 23:16 — moderator
Drs. Kamiar and Arash Alaei, two prominent HIV physicians have been imprisoned in Iran since June 2008. Please join the call to the Iranian government to drop the charges against them by signing the Physicians for Human Rights petition at this link http://actnow-phr.org/campaign/drop_the_charges

Here is a message from Physicians for Human Rights. TAC endorses it:
After being held without charge for 6 months, Arash and Kamiar were subjected to a perfunctory trial last week, and found guilty of communicating with an enemy state, as well as other secret charges the Iranian government refused to reveal. PHR believes these to be politically motivated and illegitimate charges, leveled in a patently unfair court proceeding. We fear for the health, safety and human rights of these well known doctors.

Please take action TODAY to help free the two brother Kamiar and Arash.
Contact the Iranian Mission to the UN and urge Iran to release the brothers so they can continue their life-saving AIDS work.