Truth about GMO

Most Americans believe that the preservation of the environment is important, whether from a perspective of self-preservation, or a broader spiritual world. Teaching environmental principles to your children a difference could, in future, their quality of life. But, can they all now? Can not say, a greenhouse gas produced from a GMO? And what is this all about Kyoto? These environmental primer covers ten basic questions that parents really do need to understand about healthy choice for our children and our planet.

1) Chemicals. Along with the industrial revolution (ie machinery make up a large part of the working people) has a more comfortable life, it's somewhere around 70000 new chemicals in our lives. These chemicals are by increases in diseases such as asthma, cancer and ADHD (not to mention obesity). From cleaning products on surfaces on wood, carpet and vinyl, we are overloaded with chemicals can cause serious reactions in children whose immune systems are less developed, and absorb more pollutants per pound of body weight than adults. Most plastics are made from oil, combined with various chemicals. Poly vinyl chloride (PVC) is very toxic - just a touch of a brand new piece of the stuff. The "new smell" of cars, buildings, or even a plastic toy is a warning that toxic "volatile organic compounds" are filling the lungs and your family. What to do: Use natural cleaning products that are not corrosive chemicals and give the added bonus that un-huffable. When building or rebuilding a home or office, ask for environmentally friendly building materials. When you shop for toys, clothes, tableware, greeting cards, etc., look for items made of cotton, glass and other natural and recycled materials. Take your own handkerchief to all your shopping trips.

2) Petroleum. Even if oil is increasingly scarce, we keep burning it as an endless supply. Most of the oil that is left on earth either in pristine wilderness or politically treacherous developing countries. The more oil we continue to use the less there will be more and more wars will be fought over. What to do: Go to travel more and connect you. Turn off the lights and TV when you leave the room and use of electric heating and air conditioning sparingly - even if you're not worried about the money - at least save the oil.

3) carbon dioxide. If cars and factories burning oil, they produce carbon dioxide in such quantities that extreme warming our climate. CO2 is one of the "greenhouse gases" so called because they are our planet into a greenhouse. (If you were not in a greenhouse in recent times, think sauna.) NASA expects that 2005 will be the warmest year on record. Only a slightly warmer climate has already melting ancient glaciers, raising sea levels and the creation of storms like the record hurricane season of 2004. Icebergs, which for centuries helped that the Earth is the tectonic plates, are also melting. So expect more, namely, earthquakes, underwater volcanoes and tsunamis. But the Kyoto Protocol, which from 141 countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, missing the signature of the worst polluters, the U.S. Although there is general agreement in the scientific community throughout the world, the U.S. government continues to deny that greenhouse gases are in the Indeed warming of the climate. What to do: Make your next car a hybrid, take public transportation or carpool. Support organizations working to reduce global warming. The people living on beaches, you can check relocating.

4) trees and oceans. Trees and oceans are Mother Nature's response to carbon dioxide. You can suck in CO2 and give back oxygen. But we are felling of trees 4 billion a year for the production of millions of junk mails, which nobody reads. All oil and other waste dumped down drains and waterways ends in the oceans, what their capacity to absorb CO2. What to do: teach respect for the natural world and provides everything for us, and raise your children to see littering as unthinkable. Get off the mailing lists of catalogues simply throw away. Buy paper /wood products from renewable sources such as cork, bamboo, sea grass, hemp and whenever possible.

5) air pollution. Coal burning electric plants, industrial factories and cabins, along with cars are also filling our air with toxic sulphur, nitrogen (the main ingredients in acid rain) and ozone. Not only damage to buildings, plants and animals, this pollution is the main blame for the enormous increase in asthma and skin cancer. Believe me, the U.S. government is also part of the problem here. The new "Clear Skies Act" is easier in corporate polluter than the older "Clean Air Act. What to do: the e-mail President, your congressperson and senators on these issues. It takes less than 5 minutes an e-mail to all four of the non-partisan website www.votesmart.org. Spend 10 minutes and you can also find out how they voted in environmental issues. And contribution to vote for candidates that our environment priority.

6) water. Unverantwortliche waste water management and insufficient forces already hundreds of millions of people in our world to live without access to clean water. Before long, half the world's population is that this reality. In the U.S., one of the four America's grater industrial plants is in violation of clean water. Corporate factory farms are a regelmaige source of water pollution, such as runoff of animal waste contaminated nearby streams and lakes. About 40,000 times per year, floods caused antiquated sewage systems to overflow, spilling raw sewage into lakes, rivers and coastal waters. Instead of this issue to update funding for these systems has been drastically reduced and a new policy allows the mixture partially treated sewage to deliberately into American waterways during floods. Although America's wetlands serve as a filter for contaminants and other storms and floods, almost 60000 hectares of wetlands are destroyed every year. What to do: Use water sparingly. Water the lawn in the early morning and not over-water, even better, install drought-hardy plants. Sweep the sidewalk, instead of water to clean. Turn off the water while the car wash, brush your teeth and shave. Run only full loads of laundry and dishes. Install water-saving plumbing. Save water and rain water run waiting for it too hot for watering plants.

7) waste. Most of our trash goes to landfills - food, diapers, plastic, paper, glass and metal, tyres, batteries, cameras, mobile phones and computers (replete with toxic chemicals and heavy metals) that we do not recycle gets dumped on top of the other Heaps of trash. This disorder often sloppy leaches all kinds bad things in surrounding soil and groundwater. A new landfill in north Texas, 25 stories high, if it is full, after they open. Landfills, many greenhouse gases like CO2 and methane. And then there's the nuclear waste we produce, although we can not seem to find out where to store it. What to do: get serious about recycling everything you can. Then increase the demand for products from recycled materials, by providing for them everywhere you shop.

8) chlorine. Most of the trash, the landfill is not incinerated. This includes a lot of paper products that have been bleached white of chlorine. Burning chlorine produces very toxic chemicals called dioxins. Sound familiar? Dioxin is the poison that almost killed the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenkov. You have probably seen pictures of his Pock-marked face in the news. What to do: Buy paper products that are not bleached with chlorine, available at more progressive grocery stores. Make sure to chlorinated compounds in foods also.

9) food. If you go grocery shopping, unless specifically says the food is organic, then it is probably loaded with pesticides and genetically modified or modified organisms (GMO /GEOS), while most meat and dairy products that contain antibiotics, steroids and other hormones. Antibiotics are used, because of overcrowded conditions in which animals before slaughter. But these additives do not have to signage or labels. Despite all the assurances we really do not know what that adding this stuff on our food supply is doing for us, but it can not be a good thing. Disease-fighting antibiotics are at risk if we eat antibiotic-laden foods and much more resistant bacterial strains show up all the time. What to do: Buy organic, especially for young, the development of children. Organic farmers are much better on the earth and its creatures in many other ways to ....

10) international community. While the environment is clearly a problem in the U.S., it is much, much worse in many other parts of the world. Very few developing countries have pollution controls to speak, and so the air, water and soil are often terribly contaminated. Children in turn are the most vulnerable in these polluted environments. What to do: Generally Simplify your life; buy only what you really need and think carefully about what you have in you and your family. Donate money to the simplification of environmental organizations that work on a global level.

This is not an exhaustive list of environmental problems, but it is a start. Making only these changes are significant efforts, so do not expect it overnight. Implementation of new ecological measures gradually, but steadily. If you can not beat if you have forgotten to take your cloth bags, but they go back inside. And talk to the people in your circle of influence on what you're doing and why. The protection of our children by way of preserving our environment is a value that must be increased in the American consciousness.

Patty Bates-Ballard is a writer and editor specializing in diversity and ecology. The owner of WordSmooth, she has operated her own business from her Dallas home since 2002, while raising her two sons, Kory and Kaden.

Prior to forming her own business, Patty was the Director of Diversity for the Greater Dallas Community Relations Commission, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving race relations in the DFW Metroplex. Over her 15 years of employment with the GDCRC, she developed and delivered diversity training to a wide range of organizations, corporations and school districts. Patty is a trained mediator who has helped mediate conflict and facilitate public meetings for school districts, corporations and governmental entities.

Patty's extensive human rights work has given her a deep appreciation and respect for cultural and ethnic diversity that informs all of her endeavors. She has developed a curriculum called "Socha" used by school districts, corporations and non-profits designed to help "Sow, Cultivate, and Harvest" their organization's full potential.

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