Environment

This video and chapter put a lot of things in perspective for me. It made me realize how much my family, friends, and I use so many things and take for granted how these things came into to our household. The lady in the video made perfect sense to me when she was talking about how manufacturers make things to purposefully break in a few years and we turn around and keep on buying the same thing. It’s crazy to me how corporations and government take advantage of our money like it’s no tomorrow. But any who, while we are consuming all of these goods, we fail to realize what is doing to our pockets and wallets, but most importantly to our health. I was really shocked when the woman in the video said that breast milk has the highest toxins in it, due to all the waste around us. This is crazy. The one thing that I thought that was good for babies is messing them up in some shape or form. Another point I would like to bring up, is some of the women that work for the plants that are responsible for all these toxins, are at their peak of reproduction. While they are working in these poor conditions, they are soaking up all these harmful chemicals and at the same time damaging their reproductive organs. The lady in the video showed the cartoons of the women in the factories that were pregnant which another issue is. While the baby is supposed to be nice and warm and safe in the womb, the baby is taking in all of the toxins that the mother is soaking up. So, God forbid, the baby comes out with some type of illness, or some type of birth defect. The worst part about that is, the mother most likely won’t be able to pay for healthcare, which is already sky high (but I’m not going to touch that issue).