Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey’s Green Childhood Vaccines: Oxymoron or a Possibilty?
Many parents are concerned about the safety of childhood vaccines, and my attention was caught by Mothering’s action alert about “Green Vaccines”. What the heck is a green vaccine? It sounds like an oxymoron to me. Jenny McCarthy, spokesperson for Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), and Jim Carrey are calling for support of the Green Our Vaccines Rally for Autism.
On June 4, 2008, the Green Vaccines rally will be held in Washington, D.C. The rally cry is:
- We are not anti-vaccine, we are anti-toxins.
- Green our Vaccines!!
- Change the schedule, babies are getting too much too soon.
- We support informed consent for all families
- To give the moms and dads around the world a day to be heard. This is their day. This will be their moment.
Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey believe that the current mandatory vaccine schedule requires too many vaccines too soon for young children. I believe all these early vaccinations do not give children’s natural immune systems a chance to develop, and these young bodies are overloaded with toxins. I agree with Jim and Jenny, but I believe the slogan of “Green our Vaccines!” is a bit misleading.
The term “green” to me means “natural”. The only way to naturally protect a child from an disease, such as chicken pox, is for a child to contract the illness and develop naturally immunity. That being said, there are some illness that are too dangerous to contract, and in my instance, I have made vaccinations choices based upon my son’s congenital heart defect I would not have made otherwise. “Live” vaccines do work by causing the body to respond to weakened version of illness, which reminds me of the principles of homeopathy, and many doctors believe that vaccines strengthen the immune system.
I agree that the vaccine schedule needs to be revised and toxins, such as aluminum, need to be removed. We can have safer vaccines for children, and I recognize the importance of vaccines for both public and personal health. I am just not sure the slogan “Green our Vaccines” is appropriate. Perhaps “Safer Vaccines” or “Toxin-Free Vaccines” would be a more accurate way to describe the changes that need to happen to protect our children.
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I don’t think that the issue we need to be discussing here is the slogan “Green Our Vaccines”. This is a slogan that’s attention grabbing in our society right now. Obviously this slogan has helped the cause gain more attention. What we NEED to be discussing is the TRUTH behind these claims. I think it’s moronic to think that the chemicals in vaccines are a positive to a child. We already know the dangers of mercury and aluminum to an adult individual. Why would we give this to our children? Why would we assume this is ok? Just because the government and mass media says so? If your neighbor jumped off a cliff, would you too? Or better yet, should we just wait 20 years for the results of the tests that the public will demand on these vaccines? Then we can all wish we had taken the toxins out of them more quickly. I know a lot of people who believed that there was no direct cause of lung cancer from tobacco use. These people, if they were alive, would wish the government and it’s interest groups would have been more fourthcoming with the truth. So pick on the slogan if you will… BUT DO pay attention to the truth that’s behind it.