a couple weeks ago the New York Times reported this shocking news....
Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It’s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies — to the tune of six pounds per American per year. That’s a lot of estrogen.
More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in their urine, and scientists have linked it — though not conclusively — to everything from breast cancer to obesity, from attention deficit disorder to genital abnormalities in boys and girls alike.
Now it turns out it’s in our food.
Consumer Reports magazine tested an array of brand-name canned foods for a report in its December issue and found BPA in almost all of them. The magazine says that relatively high levels turned up, for example, in Progresso vegetable soup, Campbell’s condensed chicken noodle soup, and Del Monte Blue Lake cut green beans.
The magazine also says it found BPA in the canned liquid version of Similac Advance infant formula (but not in the powdered version) and in canned Nestlé Juicy Juice (but not in the juice boxes). The BPA in the food probably came from an interior coating used in many cans.
link to read the rest of the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08kristof.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=progresso&st=cse
THEN I UNCOVERED THIS:
OH
MY
G.O.D
this article was originally posted on feministing.org
This holiday season, Swanson Broth (a subsidiary of Campbell Soup) decided to make a very sweet advertisement promoting their product. The ad features the story of a lesbian couple preparing their meal on Christmas Eve with their young son, and it was featured in The Advocate, who has many GLTBQ readers:
No problem, right? Well, not to the far-right gay-haters at the American Family Association . The organization, known for boycotting Disney, McDonalds and Hallmark for "embracing the homosexual agenda", sent out the following email blast:
Send an email to Campbell Soup Company President Douglas Conant. Tell him you want his company to stop supporting the gay agenda.
In the December, 2008 and January, 2009 issues, Campbell Soup Company bought two, two-page advertisements in the latest issues of the nation's largest homosexual magazine, "The Advocate." The ads promote their Swanson line of broth.
In one of the December ads, the Campbell Soup Company highlighted the lives of two lesbians with their son. The others feature New York City chefs. See the ads here.
Campbell Soup Company has openly begun helping homosexual activists push their agenda. Not only did the ads cost Campbell's a chunk of money, but they also sent a message that homosexual parents constitute a family and are worthy of support. They also gave their approval to the entire homosexual agenda.
What lovely holiday spirit, eh?
Fortunately, Campbell Soup is standing their ground, as company spokesperson Anthony Sanzio replied :
"We support all types of families, regardless of how they're defined, [and have done so] for more than 100 years," Sanzio offers. "We advertise in a variety of different media outlets that appeal to a broad spectrum of society. That's what we're doing here, and that's what we'll continue to do."
Bravo to Cambell Soup for standing up for human decency and against this ridiculous homophobic bigotry.
I, for one, am going to go buy a can of Campbell Soup and mail it to AFA headquarters, with a note telling them that I fully support Campbells and will continue to happily buy their products. Here's their mailing address, if you'd like to join in:
American Family Association
P. O. Drawer 2440
Tupelo, MS 38803
LOOKS LIKE CAMPBELL'S JUST FOUND THEIR TARGET MARKET
RC (I can't even believe this is real - they even put BUTTERNUT SQUASH as the recipie, how does life set itself up so beautifully?)
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