When Will We Start Applying the Precautionary Principle to the Chemicals that Are Killing Our Kids?
By Katherine Paul, Organic Consumers Association The first car my parents carted me and my siblings around in, in the 1950s, didn’t have seatbelts. Not one of us was ever strapped into a car seat. No kid I knew donned a helmet before hopping on her bike. When I was a kid, there were no government-regulated safety standards for cribs or playpens or strollers. There were no “choking hazard” warnings on the packages containing the toys we played with, regardless of how many small, potentially detachable parts came with those toys. RELATED STORY: Chlorpyrifos: Playing Pesticide Politics with Children’s...
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