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Endocrine Disrupters and the Pill
- Introduction
- How EDs Work
- Our Stolen Future
- Drugs in the Environment
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Examples of EDs
- Government Testing
- Laws
- The Pill as an ED
- History of the Pill
- Case Study: Coastal Waters
- Case Study: Fish
- Case Study: Men in Italy
- Solutions
- What you can do!
- Further Information
Comments & questions to:
khornbach@macalester.edu
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Involved Organizations
Several organizations are involved in the issue of
Endocrine Disrupters, which you can become involved with further to
help facilitate change. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
has a large section of their website dedicated to the problem of
toxics. While they do not focus on types of toxics, they focus on
topics such as Pesticides and Toxics in the Home. They do not
specifically dedicate any part of their work to the end of Endocrine
Disrupters, but instead concentrate on helping people to see what
chemicals are hazardous, and possible alternatives to these chemicals.
Like NRDC, many larger organizations such as Greenpeace and Sierra Club
see the mounting problem of toxics, but often do not have large
campaigns that are currently occurring. Other organizations, such as Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) and the Pesticide Action Network
(PAN), focus solely on the issue of pesticides, looking at their
overall negative health problems, noting their place in disrupting the
endocrine system.
While many environmental organizations focus on
pesticides, there are a growing number of women's environmental groups
that are beginning to think and speak about the issues of synthetic
chemicals as they relate to women, in particular to birth control pills
and hormone replacement therapies. Organizations such as the Network
for Women's Health and the Environment in Ontario, the Women's Environmental Network in Britain and the Women's Healthy Environments Network
(WHEN) have all looked at the problems posed by synthetic chemicals in
our world. Citizen involvement and environmental interest in the
issue of endocrine disrupters seems to be dwindling with more and more
ED websites becoming inactive. For organizations to pay attention to
issues, they must often be flashy or the new thing. EDs are neither,
but are still an important issue, where citizens can affect change
through spreading the word about the problems of EDs and letting
politicians know this is an important issue to you. EDs can be dealt
with; the right steps simply must be taken.
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Last updated: 5/2/2006
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