Since I’ve managed to figure out how to embed videos in the blog, I can’t seem to help showing you some of the most electrifying clips I’ve seen. This is one of them – please watch it!
Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child?
Ms. Chaffer won her first British Academy Award Nomination for her BBC4 debut, Me and My Dad, followed by Shakespeare’s Stories for the BBC, for which she received a BAFTA nomination.
It was her question about the effects of chemicals on her unborn child which led to her production of the documentary/surrealist film Toxic Baby. Today she works to bring to light the issue of environmental chemical pollution and its effect on babies and children.
In working on the film, she worked with scientist Tyrone Hayes, an expert on amphibians at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a critic of atrazine (a herbicide used on corn), which he has found to interfere with the development of frog endocrine systems.
Onstage together at TEDWomen, Hayes and Chaffer tell their story. It’s stunningly disturbing.
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Interesting timing of this . . . I am heading to Oregon tomorrow to help care for my aunt with breast cancer. . . I continue to be perplexed with how the makers of such toxic chemicals can sleep at night.
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