Prozac Found in Britain's Drinking Water
And people used to joke that the Post Office should put Valium in it's stamps...
When this headline appeared in my news feed I was certain that it must be some sort of joke. Visions of "Monte Python's Flying Circus" danced through my head (yes, that is some of my favorite humor...). Then I read the article and realized that no, it was not a belated April Fool's gag, it was reported in deadly earnest. Please read the article - it speaks for itself.
As you read, ask yourself about the state of our water supply. With our pharmaceutical industry urging ever-more of it's concoctions upon us, a pill for every ill, one has to wonder where all that chemistry goes after it passes through our bodies... Not only must we question what this is doing to our water supply, but also what the effects of this are a little further down the chain - after all, that same water irrigates our crops and slakes the thirst of our farm animals. What then, when our food supply begins giving these chemicals back to us in Heaven knows what form?
There is no research that tells us of the long-term effects of these substances on us, our crops, and our food supply. Instead of constantly striving to find new ways to control the symptoms and complaints of our "modern ills", perhaps we should be asking our pharmaceutical giants to look into putting nutrition back into our daily fare. Surely there might be some profit in that. Meanwhile, I'll be humming the theme music from "The Flying Circus" today...
Cheers,
Nurse Mark
9:40:31 AM 
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