| Having trouble getting it up? Your problems may have more to do with the chemical BPA (bisphenol A), found in can linings, than with your lack of manhood. How's THAT to get Congress's attention? BPA might be getting in the way of their extracurricular activities on the Hill and in airport bathrooms.
There are a few bills out to ban BPA, and I've recently reported on the large amounts of corporate lobbying to kill those bills. I'd also like to share with you a load of bullshit that reached my inbox this past week. The impartial sounding but corporate funded American Council on Science and Health had the following to say about BPA:
"Well, this whole thing was ignited by the Consumer Reports study saying that BPA is in our food," says Dr. Ross. "Of course it is. So what? There is absolutely no evidence that BPA is harmful to humans from food exposures, and every scientific body that has evaluated this chemical has given it a clean bill of health. However, all the activist hype has forced the FDA to reevaluate it."
"These claims against BPA have become folklore," says ACSH's Dr. Whelan. "They say these things over and over again, and eventually people think they have merit. If the FDA changes their mind and says we have to avoid BPA just to be careful, there's no hope for science. They're only reevaluating it to pacify these people."
ACSH doesn't like to tell where it gets its money, but in the past, it has taken money from ALCOA, American Meat Institute, Anheuser Busch, Archer Daniels Midland, Bristol Myers, Burger King, Campbell Soup, Coca Cola, Dow Chemical, Du Pont, General Mills, Gerber, Kellogg, Kraft Foods, M&M Mars, Nestle, PepsiCo, and Proctor & Gamble. The companies bolded here are on the record as lobbying against bills banning BPA. |
