Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer

This thought-provoking exposé on environmental contaminates and their link to breast cancer is jam-packed with information, staggeringly bleak, and arresting enough to hopefully jar us out of our complacency about the hazards of the invisible poisons and harmful toxins we are exposed to from the cradle to the grave. Narrator and breast cancer survivor Olivia Newton-John shares devastating statistics about the growing number of women diagnosed each year with breast cancer, and the program points to countless environmental agents (including pesticides, toxic chemicals, detergents, DDT, cleaning agents, and plastics) which can contribute to cell damage in humans. Ah, but as the filmmakers wonder--in language reminiscent of Jonathan Harr's acclaimed book-now-film about chemical poisoning A Civil Action--who's to blame (the FDA, big business, the military, modern chemistry, public policy?) and how does one provide the proof. Celebrated activists such as Dr. Susan Love, Dr. Ana Soto, artist Matuschica and the late Bella Abzug, along with many others, discuss human interest vs. economic interest in this environmental war. This informative and inexpensive video is sure to spark discussion in living rooms as well as classrooms. Highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (N. Plympton)