Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, 2005.

"Recycling hazardous waste into fertilizer is good for America and Americans."
-Rufus Cheney, U.S. Department of Agriculture Research Agronomist.

"One in six Americans lives within a mile of a major toxic waste site."
-Phil Clapp, President of the National Environmental Trust.

"And combination of substances in toxicology can be greater than the sum of its parts. With lead and mercury, for instance, a toxicity rating of 1 for each mercury and lead equals not 2, but 60 when combined."
-Hal Huggins

"Fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons, probably because of their capacity to modify the metabolism of cells by changing the permeability of the cell membrane and by inhibiting certain enzyme systems."
-Journal of the American Medical Association, September 18, 1943.

"In regard to the use of fluosilicic (fluorosilicic) acid as a source of fluoride for fluoridation, this agency regards such use as an ideal environmental solution to a long-standing problem. By recovering by-product fluosilicic acid from fertilizer manufacturing, water and air pollution are minimized, and water utilities have a low-cost source of fluoride available to the communities."
-Rebecca Hanmer, Deputy Administrator, Office of Water, EPA in 1983 correspondence to Dr. Leslie Russell stating EPA position on water fluoridation.

"Would there be any use at making attempts to counter-act the local fear on part of the residents of Salem and Gloucester counties through lectures on F (Fluoride) toxicology and perhaps the usefulness of F (Fluoride) in tooth health?"

"Thimerosal contains organic mercury. Organic mercury is a known developmental neurotoxin and the fetus and infants are at special risk. Public health policies should not allow infants to be purposely injected with organic mercury."
-Dr. George Lucier, toxicologist and former director of the Environmental Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

"They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks...I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race."
-Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), Gryll Grange, 1860.

"Every one of you sitting here today is carrying at least 500 measurable chemicals in your body that were never in anybody’s body before the 1920s… We have dusted the globe with man-made chemicals that can undermine the development of the brain and behavior, and the endocrine, immune and reproductive systems, vital systems that assure perpetuity… Everyone is exposed. You are not exposed to one chemical at a time, but a complex mixture of chemicals that changes day by day, hour by hour, depending on where you are and the environment you are in… In the United States alone it is estimated that over 72,000 different chemicals are used regularly. Two thousand five hundred new chemicals are introduced annually—and of these, only 15 are partially tested for their safety. Not one of the chemicals in use today has been adequately tested for these intergenerational effects that are initiated in the womb."
-Theo Colburn, Speech at the State of the Word Forum, San Francisco, 1996.