Thursday, October 11, 2007

Biophobia

Have you met nanosilver yet? They’re putting it into clothes, washing machines, and other things to KILL KILL KILL. All bacteria must die! The trouble of course is that bacteria is also good for you. You couldn’t digest food if not for the symbiotic bacteria in your gut. The bacteria in your mouth protects your teeth and fights off cooties. The bacteria crawling all over you skin right now acts as a frontline against the bad germs. We’re not actually alone on this planet, you know. Our bodies are complex systems made up of other lifeforms. Indeed, the very mitochondria powering our cells seems to have joined us long long ago, merging together with other cells. We've been chimeras for ever.

Washing machines? All these years not realizing how deadly our clothes are. What bullshit. Another manufactured necessity from the forces of biophobia, the killers of life.

62,000 or so manufactured chemicals in our environment, and we have no idea what most of them do, except collect in our bodies.

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