At the end of my interview I asked Malkan this question and she replied, “We need to boycott, lobby, write letters, educate our daughters, talk to everyone we know about what we are learning ? we need to reclaim our health, our environment and our democracy.”
…If a product contains fragrance, parabens, sodium laurel/laureth sulfate, PEGs, diazolidinyl urea, petrolatum, or things like that, I don?t buy it because I know the company could be making a higher quality, less-toxic product. … When we look at the cancer statistics ? the fact that the risk of breast cancer has tripled in just 40 years and now strikes 1 in 8 women in the U.S.; the fact that testicular cancer is rising in young men, and childhood cancer is a leading cause of death among children ? it?s obvious that we need to do everything we can to reduce the load of carcinogens in the environment and in our bodies.
I was interviewed for The Bergen Record record last week and the article went live today. Check it out, email it to your friends and if you have today’s Bergen Record, it’s in the Better Living section.