Our Homes Are More Toxic Than Hazardous Waste

Our homes are more toxic than the hazardous waste I was cleaning up. As an environmental scientist, I'm a survivor of toxicity. I cleaned up hazardous waste for a living. I lost my life at 25 years old. I had no hope of a family. I had no hope of having children. I was dysfunctionally sick, chemically sensitive, inflamed headaches, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia. I wanted to take my life. I was so inflamed and insulted by toxicity from my job that what I discovered discovered is that our homes are more toxic than the hazardous waste I was cleaning up. As an environmental scientist, as a geologist, we're being so lied to when it comes to our homes, our products, our foods, because it's driving one thing, commerce, and it's not driving health and family and community, the things that matter. And we have to get back to that. You know, if you go to Italy, if you go to other countries, you'll see what family is about. They care about the land, they care about where the food comes from. There's honor, there's integrity.