I have to rant today. I love America and I love all of the freedoms and rights we have here. But one thing really irritates me. Why isn’t my right to breathe clean air? Why are other people allowed to come near my home and pollute the air, adversely affecting my health? Where is my right to health and wellness?!
This is something I have thought about a lot in regards to smoking. I am all for banning smoking from public places. If I do not want to breathe the diseased air that emanates from cigarettes I feel that I should not have to. I do not allow people to smoke anywhere near me or my children and I am quite vocal about it if someone tries. This angers a lot of people but their habit does not ONLY involve them and their health, it involves anyone within close proximity. And that is just wrong.
Today I went outside to make a quick trip to the post office. Almost immediately after stepping outside from my backdoor I smelled a horrific chemical smell. Across the street a farmer was spraying some sort of pesticide on his soy bean crops with a huge tractor and mechanical arm. My throat started to hurt immediately, my eyes stung, I got a sinus headache, and I generally just felt awful.
How can this be allowed I ask? How can it be okay for someone to spray noxious chemicals into the air for anyone too be harmed by? Yes, this farmer may feel that spraying these chemicals is important to his livelihood but how is that fair to me, who felt sick all day because of his actions? How is that fair to recipients of his crops who will eat soy beans laden with chemicals?
It is NOT FAIR at all!
Thanks for listening to my rant :)
I think most of my sinus headaches come from pollen, but second hand smoke and the smell of chemicals does trigger it as well. I found using a nedi pot on a regular basis helps, howver, there are some days It feels like I become more sensitive after everything is cleared out. I think eventually this planet is going to get tired of us and, like George Carlin says, shake us off like a bunch of fleas.
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