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Radioactive
fish breast cancer rates and a nuclear power plant
thecancerblog.com
06/13/2006
Join
the Mothers Milk Project at the Beacon Sloop Club CORN FESTIVAL
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Noon to 5 PM at the Beacon NY Waterfront
Bring us a sample of your breast milk - we will test it for
radioactivity for free!
Take Metro-North to Beacon Station
Visit www.beaconsloop.org
Help
spread the word! Download
this flier and share it with your friends and post it
in your community!
PLEASE
DONATE A SAMPLE OF YOUR BREAST MILK!
We
are collecting mothers milk within a 50-mile radius of
the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in New York and Connecticut.
The milk will be analyzed confidentially for traces of
radioactivity - strontium-90 - which is routinely released
by Indian Point.
Strontium-90 causes birth defects, bone cancer and leukemia.
Exposure increases risks for breast, lung and other soft
tissue cancers.
Help us create a database of information.
The New York State Department of Health and Indian Point’s
owner stopped sampling cow’s milk near Indian Point
in 1991 - just as strontium-90 levels were increasing.
They never sampled human breast milk.
Visit www.MothersMilkProject.org!
Mothers
Milk Project at Indian Point Benefit
Join
the Mothers Milk Project at its table at the Monday, June 30,
2008 Indian Point Safe Energy Council benefit at Lincoln Center
in New York City. The event includes two film screenings: the
New York premiere of award-winning "Woven Ways," which
explores the impact of uranium mining on the Navajo people, and
"Nowhere to Run," about consequences of an accident
at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in Buchanan, New York.
6:30 P.M. to 10:30 P.M. Walter Reader Theatre at Lincoln Center,
165 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam. Tickets
$20.
Dear
Muscoot Farm,
Please share Pineapple's milk with the Mothers Milk Project!
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Muscoot
Farm is
a beautiful working and educational farm located exactly 10 miles
downwind of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station in Somers,
New York. Pineapple, the Jersey cow pictured here, is milked twice
a day. Some of her milk is fed to her calf, Papaya, and the rest
is fed to the Tamworth pigs (pictured here taking their morning
nap) as swill. Westchester County owns Muscoot Farm and it is
well maintained by Westchester County taxpayers. The Mothers Milk
Project is asking Muscoot Farm to share one quart of Pineapple's
milk once a month to be tested for radioactivity. The Mothers
Milk Project is also asking for samples of goat milk from Isabelle
(left) and Skye (right). We hope to extend special thanks on this
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Mothers
Milk Project Signs Up Breastfeeding Mothers at Clearwater Festival on
June 21
Mothers Milk
Project co-directors Nancy Burton and Gail Merrill signed on a dozen
more lactating mothers from New York and Connecticut communities to
donate their breastmilk samples for radioactivity testing. Pictured
here is a New York City mother and her baby who signed on to the Project.
Cindy-Lu-the-Goat, who visited the Festival with her kids, Hannah and
Henry, gave her first live radio interview with WBAI. George Amarant,
of Haddam, Connecticut, dropped by to tell us he kept three milking
goats near his home one mile west of the now-defunct Connecticut Yankee
Nuclear Power Plant in the 1970s. He said the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission told him they would test his goats' milk for Iodine-131 but
not strontium-90 because they predicted the strontium-90 would be below
detectable levels.
Mothers
Milk Project Invites Lactating Mothers at
Clearwater Hudson River Revival Festival to
Give Milk Samples For Indian Point Study
The Mothers Milk Project invites lactating women to share samples of
their breastmilk at the annual Clearwater Hudson River Revival. The
Project will share a booth with WestCan (Westchester Citizens Awareness
Network).
Where: Croton Point Park, Croton NY
When: Saturday and Sunday, June 21-22 from 12 noon to dusk,
rain or shine.
For more information and directions visit: www.Clearwater.org
and www.IPSECinfo.org.
Listen
to the Mothers Milk Project interview with Rebecca Myles on WBAI-Pacifica
Radio, 99.5 FM on the June 18, 2008 evening news from 6 to 6:30 PM (repeated
at 11 PM) and streamed live at www.wbai.org.
Legendary songwriter Pete Seeger joined Mothers
Milk Project leaders as they accepted a donation of mother's milk at
the Strawberry Festival in Beacon, New York on June 15, 2008
Fifteen more breastfeeding mothers signed on to donate their milk to
have it tested for levels of strontium-90 and other radioisotopes routinely
emitted by the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station in Buchanan, New York.
Cindy-Lu-the-Goat,
also a milk donor, and her kids Hannah and Henry greeted visitors to
the Mothers Milk Project booth.
Have
your goat's milk tested for strontium-90!
Breastfeeding
mothers offered samples of their milk on June 5, 2008 to launch the
Mothers Milk Project to test for radionuclides within a 50-mile radius
of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in Buchanan, New York. A milk
donation was also made by Nubian Goat Cindy-Lu, mother of Hannah and
Henry, pictured to the right.
PRESS CONFERENCE
was held at
227 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, Connecticut
on Thursday, June 5, 12 noon
Contact: info@mothersmilkproject.org
The
Mothers Milk Project is being launched on June 5, 2008 to begin a systematic
sampling of mothers milk produced by humans and other mammals living
within 50 miles of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station in Buchanan,
New York.
Indian
Point's owner and the New York State Department of Health stopped sampling
cow's milk near Indian Point in 1991 and have never tested human breast
milk.
The
project is an unpredecented campaign to create a database of findings
of the potential presence of radioisotopes in milk of mammalians, including
humans, near the nuclear power plant.
Indian
Point, in common with all nuclear power plants, is designed to routinely
release fission products into the air. These include strontium-90, which
has a half-life of 30 years and remains biologically active for 600
years. Strontium-90 mimics calcium in its chemical composition and is
readily taken up by bone cells and teeth, where it continuously emits
pulses of energy which disrupt the functions of nearby cells. Strontium-90
exposure is linked to bone cancer, leukemia, diseases of the immune
system and cancer of soft tissue including breast and lung. Strontium-90
is only one of more than 100 radioisotopes routinely released by Indian
Point. All are carcinogens and all.are most harmful to young children
and developing babies.
We
encourage breastfeeding mothers to participate in this program by donating
a cup of their breast milk monthly. Each sample will be divided into
four parts: one for the New York State Department of Health, one for
Entergy, Indian Point's owner, one for the project's independent laboratory,
and one to be retained by the project. There is no cost and all samples
will be taken confidentially with results anonymous.
The
Mothers Milk Project will also include dairy cow and goat milk samplings.
Other mammals may be included as well.
The
Mothers Milk Project is designed to inform the community about a known
hazard - radiation - which is insidious because it cannot be seen, tasted,
smelled or detected except with sophisticated equipment and which is
biologically harmful at any degree of exposure.
Please
return to this website for future updates.
To
donate milk to the Mothers Milk Project, click
here
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