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Speaking With One Voice

The global community of people suffering from health conditions caused by toxic chemicals tends to become divided by different theories of causes and treatments. We get so focused on what divides us that we lose sight of the bigger picture, and we lose sight of what unites us.

So let me ask you this question: What name do you use to describe your wide range of symptoms?
Chemical Injury?
Chemical Sensitivity?
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity? MCS?
Chemical Allergy?
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Fibromyalgia?
Environmental Illness?
Environmental Sensitivities?
Mold Sensitivity?
Sick Building Syndrome?
Heavy Metal Poisoning?
Toxic Injury?
Or some other name?

The list of various names we go by seems huge. Although many of these different names were formerly used interchangeably, there are now some distinguishing factors for some of them. For example, a person might be Chemically Injured, which results in severe toxic reactions whenever he/she is exposed to toxic chemicals, such as pesticides or scented products. Yet this person might have no reactions at all if he/she is exposed to pollen or mold. However, someone with Environmental Sensitivity is usually affected by molds, pollens, food sensitivities, and some toxic chemicals, such as pesticides.

All the confusion that surrounds our health conditions will completely disappear when more medical research is done. Scientific, peer-review research using control studies will evaporate the confusion and controversy; but this means that the medical researchers in the toxicology field have to finish their homework!

Regardless of the name that is attached to our symptoms, we all need pure air, pure food and pure water. A treatment plan agreed on by everyone is avoidance of the toxic chemicals, molds, etc that cause the symptoms.  Also, we all experience many of the same horrible symptoms that make living in a chemically-dependant society very challenging. Sometimes these challenges are overwhelming and our tendency is to feel swamped and conclude that the fight is hopeless.

If we start to feel it is hopeless, we stop fighting. Then we really have lost the fight. Without hope it is impossible to fight. It is hope that enables us to persevere.

No matter how hopeless our situation looks, we must Never Give Up Hope!!

1) Hope strengthens us for the battle to overcome the challenges that we daily encounter.
2) Hope strengthens us for the battle to overcome the obstacles that stand in our way of having a safe, secure place to live and work.
3) Hope strengthens us for the battle to overcome the obstacles that stand in our way of receiving effective medical care.
4) Hope strengthens us for the battle to overcome the obstacles that stand in our way of raising public awareness.

 So I challenge each one of you:
- To stand together united regardless of the name given to your symptoms.
- To stand together united, and fight for a safe, secure place to live and work.
- To stand together united, and fight for effective medical help.
- To stand together united, and be determined to never give up hope.
- To stand together united, and speak with one voice.

In Canada, we have a Charter Right to life, liberty and security of the person. Therefore society needs to make room for us to live someplace in this vast big country, where our lives and our health are free from the threat of constant exposure to toxic chemicals. Society needs to enable us to access this right of life, liberty and security of the person.

Canada is a big country. Surely places can be set aside that bans the usage of any human activity that pollutes the air. We need to speak with one voice, and fight for the needs of all of us - pure air, pure food and pure water. Never give hope! Stand together united and fight for safe secure places to live and for effective medical help.

 So can we stand together united, and speak with one voice? Are you up for the challenge?

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