Reply #28: One thing that bothers me

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I am worried we have become a society where you have to have the money to afford organic foods, the non-toxic cleaners, the bottled water, you have to be able afford to live where the air is cleaner and so on and so forth - just to raise a healthy child.

I think it is like the war in Iraq. As long as this stuff didn't affect the policy makers, the professors, the managers, the doctors, it's like not having the draft. People didn't see all this as their problem - as long as they could avoid it for their own children.

And I think that stinks. If the safe thing to do is to take the mercury out - it should be taken out for everybody. I didn't have so much money when my children were little. We got the shots at a clinic. I would hate to think that kids who get their shots at a clinic are more likely to get autism than kids who go to a doctor in suburbia - because doctors know what the hell is going on or are at least more cautious than the ones out in the sticks or that serve the urban poor.

I am sure that the rich will always be healthier because they can afford it and it is one of the facts of life.

I think this whole health thing has caught up with the "well to do" and it is biting them back. It could very well be that it is the more well off that buy that shark fish, that buy the tuna and orange roughy and they are suffering the consequences along with everyone else. (And many wouldn't have known not to have every last vaccine that a doctor suggested).

I saw some report where someone was trying to figure what "worth" people placed on their children based on various things like whether they smoked or bought bottled water. It is quite depressing to me. I've never felt so much like our world is going to hell.

I've always been a very health conscious person. But I also believe it is the duty of the country - of those governing it- to regulate the industries i.e go back to the Clean Air Act - not the Dirty Skies Initiative, plus regulate what pharmaceutical companies can sell, keep the food supply safe, the water safe... the basics.