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Over 80,000 chemicals flow through our system of commerce, and many are going straight into our bodies. Even our unborn children are affected. Due to this constant exposure, we have approximately 200 synthetic industrial chemicals interacting with our cells every single day. Until recently, modern science really didn’t understand what that could mean for all of us in the long run, but that is changing.
Globally, disease rates are on the rise. Theories about the causes abound, yet the issues are complex and often muddied by the maneuvering of political and corporate interests. To explore different facets of common chemical exposure,
Unacceptable Levels, was made in consultation with experts in multiple fields and is guided by a father on a personal journey as he attempts to bring these issues to light for everyone. Its primary goal? To determine whether we can prevent disease before it strikes us.
Unacceptable Levels opens the door to conversations about the chemical burden our bodies carry so that we can make informed decisions now and in the future. The film poses challenges to our companies, our government, and our society to do something about a nearly-unseen threat with the inspired knowledge that small changes can generate a massive impact.
FEATURING:
Ralph Nader Author, Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism
Dr. Devra Lee Davis Founder and President, The Environmental Health Trust
Stacy Malkan Co-Founder of The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
Ken Cook President and Co-Founder, The Environmental Working Group
Christopher Gavigan Former CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World and CPO of The Honest Company
Dr. Alan Greene Pediatrician, Author/Feeding Baby Green
Dr. John Warner President & Chief Technology Officer, The Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry
Andy Igrejas Director, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families
Dr. Jennifer Sass Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-unacceptable-levels-review-20130913,0,7219995.story#axzz2rYiI0Qqh
'Unacceptable Levels'? It's mostly speculation
Movie review: A dad goes looking for answers about industrial toxins but comes up with little hard science.
By Robert Abele
September 13, 2013, 4:15 a.m.
An appropriately feel-bad offering for discerning environmental paranoids, the documentary "Unacceptable Levels" addresses the alarming number of unregulated industrial chemicals we ingest regularly through the products we buy, the water we drink and the world we live in.
Concerned husband and father Ed Brown approaches this personal project as a wide-ranging query — into food, toys, pesticides and what it all means. He interviews countless professors, experts and activists who rapidly toss off disturbing theory after grim fact about how corporations have allowed our bodies to become additive/waste depositories.
Brown's argument is hampered, however, by the chaotic rush of information and speculation, overuse of winking archival footage of commercials and old industrial films, and Brown's charmlessness as a "what's going on?" guide. (He's no Morgan Spurlock, or even Michael Moore, to name two issue-doc gadflies.)
In fact, thanks to the secretive nature of the companies who unleash these toxins, the movie is not much of an argument to begin with, since there's very little science yet that can give us answers to Brown's or anybody's hand-wringing. All he can do is point to his wife's two miscarriages and Crohn's disease, his own cataract and asthma, and get suspicious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
http://www.precautionaryprinciple.eu
http://environmentalcommons.org/precaution.html
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