Two of the panel members brought their own copies of Silent Spring, Carson's 1962 expose of the harms caused by the pesticide DDT.
Julia Brody, executive director of the Silent Spring Institute--a Cape Cod non-profit organization that studies breast cancer--gave a brief overview of Carson's book.
Carson, she said, made remote environmental health issues personal by relating them to the breast cancer she suffered.
Today, Brody said, the dangerous levels of mercury in all of New England's freshwater sources require the type of action Carson advocated.
"We now have a picture of where cancer lives," Brody said. "[The next step is to ask] why we see the patterns we do."
Jackson said that breast milk poses dangers of which few mothers are cognizant.
"Half the human milk would be unsaleable according to government regulations" were it to be sold, Jackson said.
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