STEINGRABER: I grew up right in the middle of the middlest state in America, the second of the three “I” states. Sandra Steingraber, welcome to Living on Earth.ĬURWOOD: Where did you grow up and tell me why you relate the cancer you developed as a young adult to the environment in which you were raised? Now a new edition of the book and the film of the same name expands the evidence of the relationship between our health and our environment. I have uncles with prostate cancer, colon cancer, but the punch line of my story is that I’m adopted.ĬURWOOD: Sandra Steingraber’s book, “Living Downstream”, laid out evidence showing links between environmental toxins and cancer rates in her hometown. My aunt went on to die of the same kind of bladder cancer that I had. I wasn’t the first in my family to be diagnosed. Steingraber explains why her own cancer diagnosis as a young woman left lingering questions about the disease.ĬLIP: I’m one of those people who really does come from a family with a lot of cancer in it.
In a new film based on her groundbreaking book of more than a decade ago, Ms.
It seems that almost every week we learn some unsettling bit of news about the effects of chemicals in our food, or water, or air, or the products we use.Įnvironmental chemicals have long been a concern for author and biologist Sandra Steingraber-particularly those linked to cancer. CURWOOD: Recently the journal Pediatrics reported a link between exposure to pesticides and the condition ADHD, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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