Researchers studying the Pacific have found large amounts of plastic.  There is even a patch estimated to be twice the size of Texas known as ‘the garbage patch” found in 1997.  Life in the sea is ingesting this plastic and may have health effects on people eating sea food. 

The garbage patch does not stand alone. There are milions of locations on earth that have large collections of trash.  Often we like to believe we live in technologically advanced societies, however, there is little done to find ways to eliminate trash and use environmentally friendly products.  Instead our society resorts to an almost barbaric way of disposing of trash….throw in it a bag and haul it away to a far away dump, throw it out the window, or throw in in the sea… and only rarely taking the extra step to recycle.

I will say after watching my own mother battle cancer and use chemo– newly diagnosed cancer patients may want to seriously consider alternative methods.  Chemo and radiation  quickly show a noticeable diminishing effect on the body.  I think the argument is often made that if the patient can go through chemo & radiation (and it does destroy the canacer) then their body will be able to bounce back.  However, if the cancer is not destroyed, as was with my mother, then the body is not only weakened by the cancer, but no longer has the strength to fight on against lost cells and cancer.  If the chemo and radiation doesn’t work it actually seems to assist in killing the person faster.

RIP MOM.

-KV