life in the soup

parkinson’s origins, we’re swimming in chemicals

these articles need to be read together. that they came across my reading queue so close to each other is a little bit unnerving, but useful for connecting the mental dots. i wonder when we’ll wake up to the fact that we’ve let corporations have far too much sway over our lives and done fuck all to hold them accountable in this country?

here’s a year end review we might benefit from … can someone give me my incidental neuro-toxin exposure from the past year?

• Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water | WIRED

  one interesting form of american innovation is coming up with measures for how we’re being (un)wittingly(?) poisoned as we go about our lives.

  THAT’S WHY, EARLIER this year, slices of brain from Briana De Miranda’s TCE-addled mice ended up with Gary Miller, a professor at Columbia University. Miller is the country’s leading proponent of a brand-new field called exposomics. Your “exposome” is the sum of your own personal environmental exposures, from the womb to the casket. Many exposures, like TCE, disappear from the bloodstream quickly; people who came into contact with a chemical in the past will never be able to prove it. The exposome is a way to potentially answer the question, “Just what the hell have I been exposed to?”

• Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson’s. They blame a deadly pesticide.