The Huffington Post reports
some lead-based debauchery happening overseas and the United States is to
blame. This report shows that, although
toxic-laden chemicals are banned for purchase in the United States, it does not
stop the U.S. from producing these chemicals and shipping them overseas to
countries that have lighter restrictions on those particular chemicals. Perry Gottesfeld and his team, while in
Cameroon, discovered that more than forty percent of Seigneurie house paints
(manufactured in the U.S.) in the Cameroon market contained high levels of
lead. The article also states that no
laws are in place in the U.S. to restrict these toxic shipments, and these
lead-based poisons are ending up in developing areas for use in schools,
daycare, and homes. Lead is not the only
regulated toxin that is finding its way out of U.S. borders: asbestos and
pesticides are also leading culprits in the poison problem.
Nothing says “I love you” more than a nice bucket of toxic
paint slapped right on the walls where little tykes will play. I think our country is living in a protective
bubble, where we believe that if it is so
here, it is so everywhere. Sadly,
this is not the case. Corporations are
yet again finding ways to make a profit for less and they do so by exploiting
developing nations that do not know, or cannot afford, to avoid these
toxins. When will corporations stop
exploiting the system? I feel so disgusted by the very fact that I live from
check to check while some CEO is making millions off exported poison.
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