Our organizations are killing us! Ramparts magazine noted many years ago that the Western world is slowly eating itself to death. Our food is often adulterated with thousands of different synthetic flavors, colors, thickeners, acidifiers, bleaches, preservatives, package contaminants, antibiotics, and poison pesticides. Food and tobacco companies spend billions of dollars each year promoting health-damaging products, thereby contributing to the high incidence of cancer and various forms of liver, kidney, heart, and lung disease. Although many argue that the scientific evidence is not conclusive enough to ban other than the most obvious hazards, many scientists believe that we are dealing with a human time bomb because the most damaging effects are likely to be long-term. Ingested toxins may well have an influence on mutations of the human gene pool, producing irreversible damage in generations to come.