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Cell phone towers kill millions of migratory songbirds every year and every year millions of the barely-used cell phones themselves end up in our landfills, poisoning the environment with ever more toxic heavy-metals.

Cell phone towers and antennas have taken over our landscape, with dozens of towers and hundreds of antennas in an average 8 mile radius. Don't believe me? Go to www.cellreception.com/towers/ and search for towers in your zip code, or in a nearby major city. There are so many towers in the major cities that the site cannot usually display an 8 mile radius, and has to show a two mile or less radius instead.

These towers are charged with high voltage electricity and do not make good or safe additions to the countryside. As mentioned earlier, birds are their most frequent victims, because the uninsulated towers look like they might make good perches.

Many cell phone service providers refuse to provide service to competing cell-phone models, and so as cell-phone consumers switch carriers they must often get a brand new phone when there is nothing at all wrong with their old phone. Usually old phones end up in the trash. Cell phones contain lead, arsenic, beryllium and many other toxic substances that do damage long after consumers have thrown them away to waste away in a landfill and saturate the ground with their toxic innards.

In addition, there is a lot of concern about the potentially hazardous effects the radio frequencies these cell phones emit may have on human beings and other living things. Increased cell phone use and an increase in the number of cell phone towers has been a major suspect, along with the widespread use of pesticides on flowering crops, in the huge honeybee die-offs of 2006-2007. Over the winter the population of domestic honeybees on the East Coast of the United States was reduced by 70% and the West Coast's population was reduced by 60%. Europe also encountered major population reductions.

An interesting clue is that most of the beekeepers who reported these huge reductions in hive population did not report finding large numbers of dead bees in the hives or on the ground just below the hives; which is unusual for a die-off. The theory regarding cell-phone towers is that the electromagnetic frequencies somehow thwart the honeybees' efforts to navigate, resulting in lots of honeybees losing their way and dying far away from the hive.

Concerns have also been raised that the constant bombardment by all of these radio frequencies causes cancer and generally lowers immune function, making humans and other animals much more susceptible to disease.

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