M3.2 Vulnerable Populations

From watching the conference on Reproductive Health and the Environment, between all guest speakers, I became more aware of my environmental surroundings, especially being a woman. Infertility and conceiving a baby has been more difficult to achieve than the past centuries, and I believe it because of chemical disruptions that we are unknowingly being exposed to.
Katsi Cook makes a  imagery example of  reflecting her cultures' beliefs of women being the first environment a child is exposed to, as we should learn to take care of it. Katsi makes it clear that the integration of electronic records and messages are powerful tools to help pregnant women beyond their environmental exposures of tobacco or smoke.


The packaging of our food as sources are also alarming to me. We, as consumers are often tricked into believing products are 100% free from para-bans and irritants based on reading the superficial labels. BPA plastic containers are more concerning because they often market "BPA Free" materials for baby products and microwavable containers; it alarms me that there is a small regulatory law that allows the use of terms to state "BPA free" still contain some BPA materials in it. This is the same for our cosmetics line, which is still unregulated. Food packaging and the materials that cross-contaminate our foods that we induce should be just as high of a priority in health regulation as we what we put on our skin. Overall as humans, if we live in a high functioning gross domestic city / country, we will have these pre-exposures, as compared to villages and countries who are undeserved and poorer, but may not have these health issues to deal with because they are still focused on protecting their primary surrounding environment, away from chemicals and parabans. I believe as Americans, we are too much of a global-business marketing system that  cares about generating large amounts of money, for cheaper more efficient products at the cost of a small price - unfortunately that price is the health of individuals who do not have control over what is happening.