Forgive us our (chemical) trespasses
By Carolyn Raffensperger My environmental health friends have long argued that the fact that every last person, human and nonhuman, carries a body burden of toxic chemicals is a violation: it is chemical trespass. We were not informed. We did not consent. It is an injustice. Environmentalists were working off of this equation.
1) Corporations discharged toxic chemicals in the course of doing business.
2) Those chemicals are now in my body.
3) I did not consent.
4) Corpora