" The continual increase in cancer cases cannot be dismissed as a statistical fluke. It is part of a greater problem: environmental illness on a global scale. We should see each new case of cancer as a "canary in a coal mine."
Canaries, small finches with rapid metabolisms, were the companions of coal miners, always there to warn of the greatest threat: deadly methane gas. Methane has no natural color, odor, or taste. The small you perceive when you turn on a gas stove is added. That added odor allows you to detect a leak or an unlit burner. If miners saw the canary acting funny or falling off its perch, they knew that methane gas was building up in the mine. When the bird went down, it was time to get above ground.
An increase in cancer among pets is another sign that something is subtly and quietly poisoning us. Many of us own dogs and cats that live in our homes and ride in our cars. They drink the same water and breathe the same air as us. The result: they also have skyrocketing rate of cancer. Rover's biggest nemesis used to be a speeding car, now its a tumor. The cancer rates of some "indoor" dogs have tripled in the past thirty years. To date, the reaction of animal doctors is the same as that of people doctors: build more hospitals and offer more chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation treatments. Instead of looking for the cause, we are focusing on the cure. We have forgotten our grandmother's axiom: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." '
~ Excerpt taken from "Serve God Save the Planet" by J. Matthew Sleeth, MD
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