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Higher-income people can shop their way out of some of the health problems by purchasing all-natural products - but that's a luxury which lower-income families cannot afford.
 
Higher-income people can shop their way out of some of the health problems by purchasing all-natural products - but that's a luxury which lower-income families cannot afford.
  
{{em|b=1|DNA Damage and Your Child's Ability to Reproduce}} Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) affect hormone-producing glands, such as the thyroid or pituitary, which in turn affect reproductive health. Toxicants can exert negative reproductive effects through several mechanisms; some chemicals kill or damage cells. If these cells are oocytes or sperm cells, exposure can result in infertility. If they are other types of cells, developmental problems can occur. Other chemicals alter the structure of DNA, causing gene mutations. Depending on the genes affected, mutations can result in an inability to conceive or in birth defects in your offspring.<ref name="arhp-2010.01"/><ref name="pew-2010.06"/>
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{{em|b=1|DNA Damage and Your Child's Ability to Reproduce}} Endocrine-disrupting chemicals affect hormone-producing glands, such as the thyroid or pituitary, which in turn affect reproductive health. Phthalates, found in most products, change how reproductive organs develop in the womb, with knock-on reproductive effects across generations.<ref name="nyt-2020.08.25"/> Toxicants can exert negative reproductive effects through several mechanisms; some chemicals kill or damage cells. If these cells are oocytes or sperm cells, exposure can result in infertility. If they are other types of cells, developmental problems can occur. Other chemicals alter the structure of DNA, causing gene mutations. Depending on the genes affected, mutations can result in an inability to conceive or in birth defects in your offspring.<ref name="arhp-2010.01"/><ref name="pew-2010.06"/>
  
 
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<ref name="sikhnet-2014.05.06">{{Src|ref|date=[6] May.06.2014|title=Air Pollution & Infertility.|quote=New information is coming out increasingly, to show the relationship between air pollution and infertility. 6.7m women have impaired ability to get pregnant or to carry a baby to term. In men, air pollution has been linked to DNA damage, abnormal sperm morphology, and reduce sperm performance.|website=SikhNet.com|name=Dr Soram Khalsa M.D.|url=http://www.sikhnet.com/news/air-pollution-fertility}}</ref>
 
<ref name="sikhnet-2014.05.06">{{Src|ref|date=[6] May.06.2014|title=Air Pollution & Infertility.|quote=New information is coming out increasingly, to show the relationship between air pollution and infertility. 6.7m women have impaired ability to get pregnant or to carry a baby to term. In men, air pollution has been linked to DNA damage, abnormal sperm morphology, and reduce sperm performance.|website=SikhNet.com|name=Dr Soram Khalsa M.D.|url=http://www.sikhnet.com/news/air-pollution-fertility}}</ref>
 
<ref name="arhp-2010.01">{{Src|ref|date=Jan.2010|title=Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health.|website=ARHP|name=Assoc. of Reproductive Health Professionals|url=http://arhp.org/publications-and-resources/clinical-proceedings/RHE/Environmental-Exposures|archurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729111547/http://arhp.org/publications-and-resources/clinical-proceedings/RHE/Environmental-Exposures}}</ref>
 
<ref name="arhp-2010.01">{{Src|ref|date=Jan.2010|title=Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health.|website=ARHP|name=Assoc. of Reproductive Health Professionals|url=http://arhp.org/publications-and-resources/clinical-proceedings/RHE/Environmental-Exposures|archurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729111547/http://arhp.org/publications-and-resources/clinical-proceedings/RHE/Environmental-Exposures}}</ref>
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<ref name="nyt-2020.08.25">{{Src|ref|date=Aug.25.2020|title=This Chemical Can Impair Fertility, but It’s Hard to Avoid.|website=The New York Times|name=Liza Gross|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/parenting/fertility-pregnancy-phthalates-toxic-chemicals.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes}}</ref>
 
<ref name="pew-2010.06">{{Src|ref|date=Jun.2010|title=Toxic Chemicals and Reproductive Health: Identifying the Connections.|website=Pew Health Group|name=The Pew Charitable Trusts|url=https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/phg/content_level_pages/issue_briefs/pastkscreproductivehealthfactsheetpdf.pdf}}</ref>
 
<ref name="pew-2010.06">{{Src|ref|date=Jun.2010|title=Toxic Chemicals and Reproductive Health: Identifying the Connections.|website=Pew Health Group|name=The Pew Charitable Trusts|url=https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/phg/content_level_pages/issue_briefs/pastkscreproductivehealthfactsheetpdf.pdf}}</ref>
 
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A Guide to Companies, their Owners, and the Politics behind them.

How much do we really know about the brands we buy in the supermarkets? Are we aware that the jar of Patak’s curry sauce, the packet of Jordan’s cereal, the Maille Dijon mustard and the box of Silver Spoon Sugar in our shopping basket are all owned by one company: Associated British Foods plc? Do we know that many of the fashion and cosmetic brands we’ve grown up with and take for granted — Clairol, Max Factor, Rimmel, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Lacoste — belong to one conglomerate, JAB Holding Company Sarl, owned by one family? Would you be surprised to find out that this same company also owns numerous other leisure brands we see every day: Coffee (LavAzza, Van Houtte, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Green Mountain), snacks (Pret a Manger, Krispy Kreme), drinks (7UP, Snapple, Schweppes) and many others?

This website aims to show who really owns the products and services we use every day, and where their profits and taxes really end up. It also reveals the intimate, sometimes incestuous relationships between these companies and the politicians whose decisions shape our lives and society. Our aim is to be the go-to site for citizens, the media, or anyone who wants to shine a spotlight on the way that corporations and governments work together for their mutual benefit.