Toxins All Around Us

So you try and live a healthy lifestyle. You don't smoke, you eat healthy foods, you (sometimes) exercise – and then BAM! you find out that those recommended eight glasses of water a day have trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in them.    First you think, well maybe a little tiny bit of the active ingredients found in anti-depressants, pain medications and high cholesterol drugs isn't going to hurt me.  But no, not surprisingly fish and wildlife that have come in contact with this medicated water have been showing growth and reproductive abnormalities.

Maybe this is more of an issue for environmental groups like the National Resources Defense Council or EarthJustice, but a healthy environment is important to us all - even consumer advocates.  A few months ago the Center for Justice & Democracy released a report demonstrating the importance of the protections provided by our civil justice system can have on our environment.  Check out the report, How the Civil Justice System Protects Environmental Health