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[2017 March] Monsanto Isn’t Feeding the World—It’s Killing Our Children The report says pesticides have “catastrophic impacts on the environment, human health and society as a whole”, including an estimated 200,000 deaths a year from acute poisoning. Its authors said: “It is time to create a global process to transition toward safer and healthier food and agricultural production.”
The Poison Papers
The “Poison Papers” represent a vast trove of rediscovered chemical industry and
regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back to the
1920s. Taken as a whole, the papers show that both industry and regulators
understood the extraordinary toxicity of many chemical products and worked
together to conceal this information from the public and the press. These papers
will transform our understanding of the hazards posed by certain chemicals on
the market and the fraudulence of some of the regulatory processes relied upon
to protect human health and the environment.
They disclose EPA meeting minutes of a secret high level
dioxins working group that admitted dioxins are extraordinarily
poisonous chemicals. The internal minutes contradict the Agency’s
longstanding refusal to regulate dioxins or set legal limits. Collusion—
They demonstrate EPA collusion with
the pulp and paper industry to “suppress,
modify, or delay” the results of the congressionally-mandated National
Dioxin Study, which found high levels of dioxins in everyday products, such as
baby diapers and coffee filters, as well as pulp and paper mill effluents.
They provide important new data on the infamous Industrial Bio-Test (IBT)
scandal. By the late 1970s, it was
known that more than 800 safety studies performed by IBT on 140 chemicals
produced by 38 chemical manufacturers were nonexistent, fraudulent, or invalid.
The Poison Papers, however, show that EPA and its Canadian counterpart, the
Health Protection Branch (HPB), colluded with
pesticide manufacturers, to keep invalidly registered products on the market and
covered up problems with many IBT tests. Cover-up— The papers also show
that EPA staff had evidence that this IBT scandal involved more independent
testing companies and more products than ever officially acknowledged.
Concealment— The papers show that EPA concealed and falsely
discredited its own studies finding high levels of dioxin — 2,3,7,8-TCDD —
in environmental samples and human
breast milk following routine use of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T (Agent Orange) by the
federal Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Intent— They
show Monsanto chief medical officer George Roush admitted
under oath to knowing that Monsanto studies into the health effects of
dioxins on workers were written up untruthfully for the scientific literature
such as to obscure health effects. These fraudulent studies were heavily relied
upon by EPA to avoid regulating dioxin. They also were relied upon to defend
manufacturers in lawsuits brought by veterans claiming damages from exposure to
Agent Orange.
[2016 Sept] Circle of Poison documentary highlights the deadly impact of the global pesticide industry Even after certain highly toxic pesticides get been banned for use in the US, they can still be produced here, "for export only." This pro-business double standard not only endangers the lives of millions around the world, but can then also come back to haunt us in the form of imported foods.
[pdf 2016] REPORT from Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Villages regarding Dengue-Zika, microcephaly, and mass-spraying with chemical poisons Zika virus
[2013] Government bee scientist behind controversial study joins pesticide firm
[2005] Pesticides the Root Cause of Birth Defects in Farmworkers
[2012 Feb] Court Rules Monsanto Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France The case involved Paul Francois, a cereal farmer who said that after inhaling Monsanto's Lasso weedkiller (which has since been banned in France) in 2004, he suffered neurological problems including memory loss, headaches and stammering. He blamed Monsanto for not providing adequate warnings on the product label.
[2012 Oct] Parkinson's Disease Linked to Exposure to Pesticides
[2011 July] U.S. Soldiers ‘Sprayed Agent Orange Across Korea’ “We were told, ‘It’s totally safe and it won’t hurt you at all,’” he added. “We were told, ‘You can drink it, you can brush your teeth with it, or you can bathe in it. It won’t hurt you. Those were lies.”
[2011 June] Are you eating pesticides? Canola oil, soybean oil used as key ingredients in pesticide products common cooking oils such as canola oil and soybean oil are used as key active ingredients in pesticide products because they work so effectively to kill bugs. The video shows how one pesticide product that kills insects is made with 96% canola oil and is so dangerous that the label says, "Hazards to humans and domestic animals."
[2010 Feb] Serious birth defects linked to the agricultural chemical atrazine
[2009 Aug] Roundup: Popular herbicide more deadly to liver cells than its active chemical alone
Britain, 1912 to 1963 Pesticides and Polio by Jim West
Top 10 Lies About West Nile Virus and Anvil by Robert Lederman
Sir Richard Doll: Death, Dioxin and PVC by Martin Walker MA [pdf)]
Poisoning The Earth For Profit - DDT, A Vaccine For Mosquitoes? by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
ARTICLES BY LINDA AND BILL ON AIRCRAFT PESTICIDE SPRAYING (from 1993 to 2001)
PROPERTIES OF ORGANOPHOSPHATES---JOANNA WHEATLEY
Organophosphate Poisoning----Helen Fullerton, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D whale
[2006] Pesticides exposure associated with parkinson's disease
[2006] Pesticide Use Increases Chance of Parkinson's in Men
[2009 pdf] USMVP’s Petition to Secretary Shinseki. Re: Petition for Presumptive Service-Connection for Parkinson’s disease due to herbicide exposures exposures to herbicides used in Vietnam have a positive association with Parkinson’s disease in exposed Veterans.
[JUNE 2005] HUMAN PESTICIDE EXPERIMENTS.
PREPARED FOR SEN. BARBARA BOXER AND REP. HENRY A. WAXMAN
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM –
MINORITY STAFF
http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20050617123506-17998.pdf
[1954] Is Human Poliomyelitis Caused By An Exogenous Virus? by Ralph R. Scobey, M.D.
[1951] Is The Public Health Law Responsible For The Poliomyelitis Mystery? Ralph R. Scobey, M.D.