Warning - Your Canned Foods are Toxic!

I'm feeling sick today - not the stay-in-bed, fever kind of sick; rather, it's more the disgusted kind of sick. I just read an enviro blog about some big name companies and their marketing plans to KEEP Bisphenol A (BPA) in our food products. And their efforts to target women - pregnant women specifically.

For all the times I am excited by companies and small businesses out there trying to do the green thing, I am equally appalled by folks who continue to try to trick, exploit, and hurt us, all in the name of money. And lots of it.

This enviro blog by the Environmental Working Group is another reason to make foods at home as much as possible and not buy processed, canned, or premade goods. But we all know that it isn't the 1950s anymore, and we don't typically have one parent home who can cook every meal from scratch. I am grateful for short-cut options, but I don't think that my canned foods should contain synthetic estrogen in it. Do you?

What can we do to let these big companies and the chemical industry know how we feel? Don't buy their products; write about it in our blogs; educate our friends, families, and colleagues, support companies who are BPA-free, and join groups that help to lobby against the chemical industry's use of toxins in food products.