I got myself too freaked out last night looking up info about the BP spill and dioxin (a carcinogenic chemical that bioaccumulates and results from the burning of hydrocarbons). Our neighbor illegally burns trash in a burn barrel and that will produce it too. No wonder I don't listen to the news any more.
Good old dioxin, my father used burn barrels and also banned herbicides and pesticides that contained dioxin. I believe some of the ashes even ended up in the vegetable garden right next to the burn barrel. Nobody in my family has reached retirement age falling to a wide assortment of common and uncommon cancers. Dioxin the gift that keeps on giving. My last remaining sister now has stage 4 brain cancer and that will leave only one person left alive. We often poison ourselves and the world around us in our innocence and ignorance.