Notice Lynne's Chemically Treated Hair Do…..
Does she use organic cotton rags (Luna Pads) for her menstrual cycles and throw them in the wash with the kids diapers??
Precautionary Principle ??
Hair dye is loaded with all sorts of questionably safe chemicals:ammonia, formaldehyde, sodium laurel sulphates and parabens, to name a few.
Editor: I recently attended the cosmetic pesticides forum in Charlottetown.
The information presented by scientists Bill Whelan (Canadian Cancer Society) and Roger Gordon (former dean of science at UPEI) was persuasive. [Now the GreenSpace Industry is insulted Lynne ] Both cited many studies and recommended making use of the precautionary principle when determining pesticide laws.
However, the Department of Environment’s Erin Taylor was a bit of a disappointment. The last hearing on pesticides saw nearly 170 out of 173 speakers push for a comprehensive ban on cosmetic pesticides, and yet it did not pass.
Taylor reminded us that the outcome was based in politics (CropLife Canada, for example, which represents all manufacturers, distributors and developers of pesticide products, objected to the ban) as opposed to a decision based in science. She offered her personal belief that the regulations are adequate, while citing no studies, research or statistics to counter the profound information previously presented. She advised that she takes her recommendations from the PMRA, who continue to state that 2,4D is safe, and yet, P.E.I. has banned it.
This suggests blind faith hasn’t been our policy concerning the PMRA, so it seems contradictory. However, the statement I found the most concerning from her was ‘The dose makes the poison’.
I could not disguise my shock. This Paracelsus quote dates back to the 1500’s and demonstrated the first early understandings of toxicology. However, more than 500 years later it’s safe to say his findings were rather primitive.
Even if we were to take this ancient observation as fact (which of course it isn’t), it leaves out of the equation the problem of bioaccumulation. And beyond that, we now know that many chemicals are more toxic at small amounts than they are in larger ones.
And that isn’t to speak of breakdown products, chemical degradation and countless other well documented realities to consider when dealing with chemicals. To simply say, ‘The dose makes the poison’ is a dangerous oversimplification, and rather insulting to the intelligence of those in audience.
Lynne Lund,
Clinton
Steve and Lynne Lund, parents to eight-month-old Maddox, decided to invest a few thousand dollars and open a small diaper delivery service out of their home called Bumbleberry.
"We sort of got on the whole environmental kick, not wanting to expose him to chemicals and things like that," said Steve Lund.
They didn't want to deal with the mess of cloth diapers, so they looked for a service that would pick up the dirty ones and drop off clean ones.
"The more we looked into it, they just weren't available," so Steve had said, 'if there's a market for it, why not?'," said Lynne Lund.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/new-parents-start-cloth-diaper-service-1.1018999