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Considering the
whole span of
earthly time,
the opposite effect, in which
life actually modifies it's surroundings, has
been relatively slight.
Given time
- time not in years but in millennia - life
adjusts and a balance has been
reached.
For time is the
essential ingredient,
but on this modern
Earth there is no time.
- Rachel Carson, biologist and author,
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
"The land itself is in mourning - its
wilderness pastures are dried up. For they all do evil and abuse what power
they have."
- Jeremiah 23:10
"In the ideal market economy the price of a
product as reflected by the demands of buyers and sellers in a
free market would represent the
best possible allocation of resources.
In
reality, many economic exchanges create
"spillover effects" or "externalities" which impose costs on people who are not
parties to the transaction. The number and gravity of these "externalities" has
risen remarkably in the second part of this century. They include not only
localized externalities (for example, toxic substances from industrial
manufacturing that leech into public water supplies) but also pervasive
externalities (such as acid rain, ozone depletion, or CO2 buildup)." - Don
Mayer |
In a
U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released in July
2005 148 toxic compounds were looked
for in the blood and urine of
2,400 Americans age 6 or older.
Several
toxic compounds, including
pyrethroids and phthalates
were found to be in nearly every American.
Nearly 6% of the American women of child
bearing age had sufficent quantities of mercury in their
blood to impair mental
development of the
fetus.
"There are more
than 80,000 chemicals on the
market in
America, the vast majority of which lack
even basic information on health effects and
toxicity. We do know that at least
1,400 chemicals have
known or probable links to
cancer, birth defects,
reproductive effects and other health
problems such as learning disabilities. Although the incidence of these
diseases has been increasing for decades, a whole host of other obstacles to
healthy development have also been on the rise, including premature birth, low
birth weight, early puberty and childhood obesity. Recent
science indicates that these problems
are related to chemical
exposure." - Dan
Jacobson
{According to
The Story of Stuff there are now
100,000 (one hundred thousand) chemicals on the
market. The long term effects of most of
these chemicals are unknown and have not been studied. None of the combined
effects of the chemicals saturating our environment have ever been
studied.}
The U. S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention study concluded that the Environmental Protection Agency
"lacks sufficient data to ensure" that the public is
protected.see hidden knowledge
The
Environmental Protection
Agency is failing to
protect the public from tens of
thousands of toxic compounds because
it has not gathered data on the health risks of most
industrial
chemicals, according to a report by
the Government Accountability Office which found that
chemical corporations had provided
health data to the Environmental
Protection Agency for about 15% of
chemicals that had been introduced
over the past 30 years.
The Environmental Protection Agency
has sought information about health for fewer than 200 the estimated
80,000 chemical compounds in
commercial use. The Environmental Protection Agency
currently regulates just over 1,600 chemicals.
The Environmental Protection Agency
does not routinely assess existing chemicals, has limited information on
those chemicals health and
environmental risks, and has issued few regulations
controlling such
chemicals.
"Environmentally induced cancers are the result of human
failure. This failure is not only of a misguided war on
cancer focusing on the result and not
the cause but also the continued addiction by agriculture and other industries
to toxic agents. It also reflects a
failed regulatory scheme coupled with
antiquated and ineffective toxic
chemical
control laws.
Nationally, our primary standard is the Toxic Substances Control Act, enacted in the
1970s. The act's main goal was to require comprehensive
cancer tests for thousands of
industrial chemicals in widespread
use - a goal we have yet to achieve.
Recognizing these national
failures, two decades ago in California we
enacted Proposition 65, requiring first a list by the governor of
chemicals
known to cause
cancer, and then a warning before
exposure where they pose a significant
risk. The California agency charged with this task has not used its independent
authority to list a carcinogen in more than five years." - Al
Meyerhoff
"Many commonly prescribed medicines
have been shown to cause cancer in animals. Hormone replacement therapy is
among the most controversial medications in this regard. Estrogen can promote
uterine as well as breast cancer. Millions of women have taken HRT to ease
symptoms of menopause. How many have developed cancer because of this treatment
is unknown.(?)
A surprising number of other prescription medications
have warnings in their labels about cancer.
For example, the popular
heartburn medicine omeprazole (Prilosec) causes abnormal cell growth and
stomach tumors (carcinoids) in rats. Spironolactone (Aldactazide, Aldactone) is
a blood pressure medicine, sometimes prescribed for hormonal imbalances and
facial hair growth in women, causes tumors in rats. The prescription topical
skin treatments, Elidel and Protopic, are associated with lymmphoma and skin
cancer.
The Food and Drug Administration has warned against using these
drugs in children 2 and younger. It also states: ''The long term safety of
Elidel and Protopic are unknown."
The rheumatoid arthritis injections
Cimzia, Enbrel, Humira and Remicade, expensive bio-tech drugs have been
associated with lymphoma or other cancers.
"All members of the two most
popular classes of lipid-lowering drugs (the fibrates and the statins) cause
cancer in rodents, in some cases at levels of animal exposure close to those
prescribed to humans." - Journal of the American Medical Association, January
3, 1996
In the New England Journal of Medicine, Sept. 25, 2008,
investigators noted a higher incidence of cancer in subjects taking Vytorin." -
Joe Graedon, pharmacologist & Teresa Graedon, doctorate medical
anthropology, nutrition expert
"Taking menopause hormones for
five years doubles the risk for breast cancer, according to a new analysis of a
federal study that reveals the most dramatic evidence yet of the dangers of
these popular
pills." - Marilynn Marchione
12/13/08
"A third of men and a quarter of women undergoing cancer
screening will get false positive results by the time they have undergone four
tests, which can lead to inappropriate medical procedures. Men's risk of a
false-positive finding was 36.7 percent by the fourth screening, and women's
risk of the wrong result was 26.2 percent by the fourth of the 14 routinely
recommended tests possible for each patient, according to the research
published in Annals of Family Medicine." - Elizabeth Lopatto 05/12/09
"A
study published this spring in Annals of Family Medicine found that 60%
of men and 49% of women had gotten at least one false positive during three
years of routine screenings for ovarian, prostate, lung and colorectal cancer.
As a result, 22% of those women and 29% of those men had an invasive diagnostic
procedure." - Karen Kaplan
"Messages about screening have been
oversimplified to ‘Early detection saves lives,' and that's the end, and
people are made to feel irresponsible if they don't test. It's a more nuanced
decision than that. The more times you intervene, the greater the chance is
you're going to have harm." - Jennifer Croswell, the study's lead author and
acting director of the office of medical applications of research at the
Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health 05/12/09
"It is worth
noting what this contamination throughout America represents a highly industrialized
civilization bringing us
material abundance. Is this what we are
defending? The American
way of life
based on an unchecked "free" enterprise
system? It seems fundamental that we examine the cost of this
freedom and ask just how
free we are if the
materials and
services provided cost us this
much in compromised air,
soil, water and health." - Craig Houx
"We
contaminated the environment sufficiently
that there are measureable amounts of potentially
toxic substances in
humans - both children and adults. We
have fouled our own nest."- Dr. Jerome A. Paulson, associate professor of
pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health
Sciences
"I found it alarming to read a story premised on the
idea that cultural shifts were the only cause of
population change. Since
1960, we have introduced thousands of new
chemicals into our environment and
done many other things that are
inimical to life and
reproduction. It is disingenuous to look
at just a few sociological causes and to
ignore what we have done to the Earth." - Joe
Shea, commented on the sperm count reduction of men in
developed
countries.
"European countries have taken a proactive stance in an
attempt to cleanse their societies of the
toxicological deluge of the last 50
years. The United States,
unfortunately, has chosen to do the opposite by
protecting
chemical companies rather than
humans from the thousands of
untested compounds we encounter on a daily basis. The average
American (fetus, child and adult) has over
87 known man-made
toxins in his or her tissues,
interacting in unknown ways in a myriad of
combinations. Despite this fact, the federal
government rejects the precautionary
stance as expensive and unnecessary 'myth'.
Like the other examples of federal
government assault on sound
science over the last six years, this
risk based assessment is pure bunk."
-Arthur Strauss MD
216 chemical compounds were
found to cause breast cancer in animal testing. Over 200 are commonly found in
urban air and consumer products.
"There is an unbreakable link between
human well-being and the health of the
Earth"- Walter Reid
"When DuPont tells you that they bring
“Better Living through Chemistry,”
they don’t
tell you that it’s only for 100 years,
then
the entire planet dies for their
profit."
-
Jack Herer
"Having access to nutritious food should be a right, not a privilege.
We need to create a more
just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of our food choices and how those choices
affect people, animals and the
environment." - Lauren Ornelas
The
House of Representatives passed the
National Uniformity for Foods Act in March 2006, a measure that would
kill or cancel significant parts of 200
food-safety
laws in 50 states. This ill-advised bill,
supported by millions of food-industry dollars, passed without a single
hearing.
The purpose of this bill was to
keep from consumers the
useful pertinent information
required to make food purchasing
decisions.
Food companies
forked over $5.2 million to the bill's 226 co-sponsors. The Californian members
of Congress co-sponsoring the bill in the House received about $670,000 from
food interests for this
election cycle alone, and more than $1
million for 2004, according to public filings with the Federal Elections
Commission. Some of the top money
receivers are Representatives Richard Pombo (R-Tracy) , $250,208); Devin Nunes
(R-Visalia), $558,152); and Dennis Cardoza (D-Atwater) $239,152.
The
food companies do not want the
consumer to
know of any potential
hazards in the
food they sell. Now let me ask you a
question which is more important to food companies? a) a
consumer's
health or b) the bottom line (in
dollars).
National Uniformity for Foods Act has not become
law. Knowledge of melamine being added to pet food products,
hog feed, chicken feed, eggs, baby formula and processed milk products to
increase apparent protein content is just the latest example of the lengths to
which processed food producers will
go to deceive
consumers. (Animals and humans digesting melamine develop kidney stones! In
China 50,000 children were sickened and at least four infants died after they
consumed melamine-tainted baby milk formula in 2008.)
"Some people argue that the avalanche of warnings
numb the public to real
environmental hazards. Perhaps. But the
"right to know" provisions in Proposition
65 and other
laws give
consumers real choices. If one
brand of lettuce in the supermarket says it contains
perchlorate, rocket fuel and developmental
toxins and
another does not, the
market will
work. And exposure to that
chemical will be reduced, not just
at the dinner table but also "upstream," for
chemical
workers in the plants and farm
workers in the fields." -Al Meyerhoff ,
Carl Pope
"A ban on fast-food advertising to children
would cut the national obesity rate by as much as 18%, according to a new study
conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research and funded by the
National Institutes of Health." - Emily Bryson York,
11/19/08
"Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the
behaviors of rats addicted to heroin. Pleasure centers in the brains of rats
addicted to high-fat, high-calorie diets became less responsive as the binging
wore on, making the rats consume more and more food. After just five days on
the junk food diet, rats showed “profound reductions” in the
sensitivity of their brains’ pleasure centers, suggesting that the animals
quickly became habituated to the food." - Laura Sanders
The
Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a front group for the restaurant and
fast-food industry, has responded by calling the 2008 study by the National
Bureau of Economic Research and funded by the National Institutes of
Health flawed.
"Though the September 30, 2004 Institute of
Medicine report on preventing childhood obesity should be praised for
going beyond the food
industry's self serving focus on personal and parental
responsibility, it fails to mention a key
component of the problem: how our food is grown, processed and sold. Real
change must mean reorienting our agriculture
and nutrition policies so that the
healthiest foods - unprocessed
whole grains, fresh fruits and
vegetables, lean meats and nuts are also those that are most easily accessible
and most affordable." - Josh Miner, food system analyst UC Cooperative Extension
"Despite having the cheapest food system in the world,
Americans are arguably the most unhealthy,
"starving" for real, nutritious food. Farm
subsidies is at the heart of this phenomenon, which champions the interests
of agribusiness." - Dorit Dowler-Guerrero
Switching to organic
foods provides children "dramatic and
immediate" protection from
pesticides that are widely used on a variety of
crops, according to a study by a team of scientists some from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. Concentrations of two organophosphate
pesticides - malathion and chlorpyrifos - declined substantially in the bodies
of elementary school-age children during a five-day period when organic foods were substituted for conventional
foods. The findings suggest that
children are are exposed to organophosphate
chemicals mainly through
'conventional' food.
In the
summer of 2007 American
processed food producers received
approval from the United States Department of Agriculture to allow 38
non-organic ingredients in products bearing the "USDA Organic" seal. Now that
non-organic products are allowed to be labeled organic with the "USDA Organic"
seal the "USDA Organic" seal has become just another
propaganda tool in the hands of
unscrupulous
processed food producers becoming
just another example of lies masquerading as truth. The list of 38 non-organic ingredients
allowed under the "USDA Organic" seal includes 19 food colorings; casings from
processed animal intestines; hops grown with chemical fertilizers and
pesticides; frozen lemongrass,celery powder, dill weed oil, fish oil, rice
starch, beet juice, whey protein concentrate and fructooligosaccharides - a
sugar polymer that human bodies cannot digest.
In July 2007 the Food and Drug Administration announced plans
to close 7 of it's 13 food testing laboratories. The Food and Drug Administration now inspects less
than 1% of food imports and tests only
a fraction of the food
inspected.
Please see fluoride - then
you will understand why the federal government does not want
Americans to
know which harmful
chemicals are in your
food.
Low levels of pesticides
combined with low levels of fungicides are known to cause Parkinson's disease, but
chemical manufactures will never admit it just as asbetos manufactures never
admitted that asbetos causes mesothelioma.
fluoride In
1931 fluoride in drinking water is found to be the cause of brown teeth - now
known as dental fluorosis.
In 1931 H.Trendley Dean of the U.S. Public
Health Service initiates studies on fluorides under the jurisdiction of
Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Mellon is founder of Alcoa aluminum, who is
one of the main suppliers of toxic sodium fluoride as a by-product of aluminum
manufacture. He publishes a purposely skewed study showing that, at 1ppm,
fluoride results in the reduction of tooth decay.
In 1937 German
manufacturing trials for nerve gas Tabun begin using fluorides and in 1938
German chemist Schrader discovers Sarin, 10 times more lethal than Tabun, which
is made with various compounds including sodium fluoride.
In 1940 Soviet
concentration camps use fluoride administration to inmates to decrease
resistance to authority and induce physical deteriorization.
In 1942
Germany becomes world's largest producer of aluminum and the manufacturing
byproduct sodium fluoride.
In 1943 researchers from the US Public Health
Service examine the health of residents of Bartlett, Texas to see if the 8ppm
fluoride in the drinking water was affecting their health. They find that the
death rate in Bartlett was three times higher than a neighboring town which
contained 0.4 ppm fluoride.
On September 18, 1943, the Journal of the
American Medical Association states, "fluorides are general protoplasmic
poisons, changing the permeability of the cell membrane by inhibiting certain
enzymes. The exact mechanism of such actions are obscure. The sources of
fluorine intoxication are drinking water containing 1ppm or more of fluorine,
fluorine compounds used as insecticidal sprays for fruits and vegetables
(cryolite and barium fluoro- silicate) and the mining and conversion of
phosphate rock to superphosphate, which is used as a fertilizer. That process
alone releases approximately 25,000 tons of pure fluorine into the atmosphere
annually."
In 1944 the city manager of Grand Rapids, Michigan announces
that the Michigan State Department of Health is planning a long range
experiment with fluoridated water and that Grand Rapids was selected as the
location for the experiment. The city commission approves a motion to
fluoridate despite the warning issued three months earlier by the American
Dental Association. Grand Rapids becomes the first city in the United States to
conduct this experiment. It was to serve as the test city to be compared
against un-fluoridated Muskegon for a period of ten years relative to tooth
decay, at which time it would be determined whether or not fluoride was "safe
and effective." Dr. H. Trendley Dean was put in charge of the project. (As a
result of government propaganda on fluorides, the ten year Michigan study was
terminated after 1 year. The fluoride-free control city, Muskegon, was then
fluoridated to conceal any differential between the two cities.)
In 1944
Oscar Ewing is put on the payroll of the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA),
as an attorney, at an annual salary of $750,000. Within a few months, Oscar
Ewing was made Federal Security Administrator, with the announcement that he
was taking a big cut in salary. The US Public Health Service, then a division
of the FSA, comes under the command of Ewing , and he begins to vigorously
promote fluoridation nationwide. Oscar Ewings public relations strategist for
the fluoride campaign was the nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward L. Bernays.
Bernays conducts a public relations campaign to promote fluorine ingestion by
applying Freudian theory to induce public acceptance. It was one of Bernays
most successful campaigns.
The Journal of the American Dental
Association on October 1, 1944 warned that "We do know that the use of drinking
water containing as little as 1.2 to 3.0 ppm of fluorine will cause such
developmental disturbances in bones as osteoporosis, and we cannot run the risk
of producing such systemic disturbances in applying what at present is a
doubtful procedure intended to prevent development of dental disfigurement in
children. In the light of our present knowledge or lack of knowledge of the
chemistry of the subject, the potentialities for harm far outweigh those for
good."
In 1945 Newburgh, New York has their water supply fluoridated.
Subsequent exams of the children by x-ray reveal that almost 14% have cortical
defects in bone, compared to the nearby unfluoridated town of Kingston, where
7.5% have bone defects.
Fluoride becomes a key
chemical in
atomic bomb
production, according to
World War II documents obtained by
Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson.
Massive quantities of fluoride -
millions of tons - were essential for the manufacture of
atomic bomb grade uranium and
plutonium for nuclear weapons
throughout the Cold War.
One of the most
toxic
chemicals
known, fluoride rapidly emerged as the
leading chemical health
hazard of the
American
atomic bomb program.
Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for
humans in low doses was generated by
atomic bomb program
scientists, who had been secretly ordered
to provide "evidence useful in litigation" against defense contractors for
fluoride injury to citizens.
The first lawsuits against the American
atomic bomb program were not
over radiation, but over fluoride damage.
Human studies were required.
American
atomic bomb program
researchers played a leading role in
the design and implementation of the most
extensive American study of the health
effects of fluoridating public drinking water - conducted in Newburgh, New York from
1945 to 1956.
In this classified 'top secret' operation code-named "Program F," they
secretly gathered and analyzed
blood and tissue samples from
Newburgh citizens, with the
cooperation of New York State Health Department personnel.
The original 'top
secret' version - obtained by Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson - of a 1948
study published by
Program F
scientists in the Journal of the
American Dental Association shows that
evidence of adverse health effects from fluoride was
censored by the United States
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) - considered the most
powerful of Cold War agencies - for reasons of
national security.
The
American
atomic bomb program's fluoride
safety studies were conducted at the University of Rochester, site of one
of the most notorious human radiation
experiments of the Cold War,
in which unsuspecting hospital patients were
injected with toxic doses of radioactive plutonium.
The fluoride
studies were conducted with the same ethical
mind-set, in which "national security"
was paramount - the individual may be sacrificed for the good of the
social culture.
An April 29, 1944 Manhattan Project memo
reports: "Clinical evidence suggests that uranium hexafluoride may have a
rather marked central nervous system effect.... It seems most
likely that the F [code for fluoride] component rather than the T [code for
uranium] is the causative factor."
The memo - stamped "secret" - is addressed to the head
of the Manhattan Project's Medical Section, Colonel Stafford
Warren.
Colonel Stafford Warren is asked to approve a program of
animal
research on uranium
hexafluoride effects: "Since work with these
compounds is essential, it will be necessary
to know in advance what
mental effects may occur after
exposure... This is important not only
to protect a given
individual, but also to prevent
a confused workman from injuring
others by improperly performing
his duties."
"How could I be told by National Institutes of
Health that fluoride has no central nervous
system effects when these
documents were sitting there all the time? That kind of warning, that fluoride
workers might be a
to the
atomic bomb program by
improperly performing their duties - I can't imagine that would be ignored - but that
the results were buried because they might create a difficult legal and public relations
problem for the government."- Dr. Phyllis
Mullenix, former head of toxicology at
Forsyth Dental Center in Boston.
In a subsequent
secret Manhattan Project memo, a
broader solution to the public relations problem was suggested by chief
fluoride toxicologist Harold C. Hodge.
He wrote to the Medical Section chief, Colonel Stafford Warren: "Would there be
any use in making attempts to counteract the local
fear of fluoride on the part of
residents of Salem and Gloucester counties through lectures on fluoride
toxicology and perhaps the usefulness
of fluoride in tooth health?"
Such lectures were indeed given, not only
to New Jersey citizens but to
the rest of the nation throughout the Cold War.
The aluminum, steel and
fertilizer industrys all produce
hazardous
toxic
waste
products called
silicofluorides, which are much more toxic than lead, almost as
toxic as arsenic, and contain some of
both.
In 1948 a study is undertaken in England where bone defects in
three groups of school boys were studied. Two groups were from districts where
the water supply was practically free of fluorine. The third group was from the
town of Launton, where the natural water supply contains 1ppm of fluorine (the
same as the level deemed "safe" by the U.S. Public Health Service). X-ray
examination revealed that 20 percent of the first two groups had mild
non-specific spinal irregularities. In the third group, the one consuming 1ppm
fluoride in their water, 64% were found to have spinal defects, and lesions
were more severe.
In 1951 the U.S. Public Health Service, with the
cooperation of the American Dental Association, holds a meeting of state dental
directors at which the methods for promotion of fluoridation are outlined. A
concentration of 1.2 ppm was suggested, and state dental directors were
instructed to lie to the public about the toxic effects of sodium fluoride.
They were to deliberately misinform the public by relating the presence of
"high-fluoride areas" to "less cancer and less polio" - an entire public
relations campaign meant to convince the public to allow themselves to be
medicated.
In 1952 the American Dental Association publishes an issue of
its Journal instructing its dentists not to discuss their personal opinions
about fluoride.
1952 US Representative Dr.A.L.Miller, Chairman of the
Special Committee on Chemicals and Foods, stated, "I sometimes wonder if ALCOA
Aluminum and its subsidiaries might not have a deep interest in getting rid of
sodium fluoride, a toxic waste product of the aluminum industry. In this
connection it is interesting to note that the person in charge of the public
health, Oscar Ewing, is also an attorney for ALCOA." 82nd Congress, 2nd
Session, Hearings of the Select Committee to Investigate Use of Chemicals in
Food and Cosmetics. Dr. Miller "The US Dental Association made some examination
and recommended to the farmers that fluorine not be added to the water of
pregnant sows because it did something to the pigs that were
unborn."
From 1952 to 1956, the cities on the "fluoridation list" began
to fluoridate their water supplies. As the process of water fluoridation
continued, the cancer death rate of the fluoridated cities began to far exceed
the rate of the unfluoridated cities.
1954 A study is published which
links fluorides and the development of cancer in animals. (A Taylor, "Sodium
Fluoride in the Drinking Water of Mice", Dental Digest, Vol 60, pp170-172.)
C.E.Perkins, I.G.Farben chemist, admits fluoride is to reduce resistance in
people to authority.
1956 March 1956 issue of the Journal of the
American Dental Association, H.C. Hodge remarks, "skeletal deposition of
fluoride is a continuing process in which a considerable portion of the
ingested fluoride, perhaps 25 to 50%, is deposited in the
skeleton."
1957 Records for New Britain, Connecticut (where the use of
industrial fluorides had been in use for 6 years) showed that some of the
children's teeth had been damaged beyond repair where the water is fluoridated.
Even when the percentage of industrial fluorine is kept at or below 1 ppm,
mottling is produced in 10-15% of the children examined. Mottled teeth are
teeth showing symptoms of fluorosis, and the enamel of mottled teeth is brittle
and subject to mechanical injury which is difficult or impossible to repair.
In October 1958, Dr. J.F. Montague, a medical doctor, published
material reflecting his growing concern over fluoridation in the Journal of
the International College of Surgeons, connecting the presence of fluorine
in the human body to cancer.
1959 In the report of the proceedings of
the 3rd Medical-Dental Conference on the Evaluation of Fluoridation, held on
March 7, 1959 in New York City, the committee concluded that "It is apparent
that the practice of fluoridation is not the simple, trustworthy procedure that
the promoting authorities have given the profession and the public to
believe."
Fluorides were used as an enzyme inhibitor in a study by J.D.
Ebert that was published in 1959 on the metabolic pathways by which organs in
an embryo are formed. In low concentrations, he found that sodium fluoride
blocked almost completely the regions destined to form muscle, primarily
affecting the heart muscle. In higher concentrations, it caused the entire
embryo to disintegrate in a clear-cut pattern, starting with the heart-forming
region.
1959 The Ontario Minister of Health, Dr. Dymond, announced that
no further fluoridation would be permitted there, because "no one knows for
sure what the effect is to persons given fluoride throughout a
lifetime."
As early as 1959, the knowledge existed that the presence of
fluoride in human bodies hastens the absorption of radioactive substances
present in the environment. In a report to the Atomic Energy Commission's
Division of Biology and Medicine entitled "The Metabolism of Alkaline Earth
Metals by Bone" by F.W. Lengemann, professor of chemistry at the University of
Tennessee on March 23, 1959, it was scientifically shown that the presence of
fluorine and other environmental substances such as lead and cyanide in the
human body increased the ratio of strontium 90 to calcium in bone.
In
research conducted on the incidence of Mongolism in cities in Wisconsin,
Illinois and the Dakotas published in 1959 in the official publication of the
French Academy of Medicine, it was found that as the percentage of fluorides in
the water rose, there was a parallel rise in the incidence of Mongoloid births.
The age of the mothers giving birth to Mongoloid babies also declined with
rising fluoride levels. It is interesting thatin the first three years of
fluoridation, New Britain, Connecticut experienced a 150% rise in still
births.
In Great Britain, Dr. R.A.Holman of the Royal Institute of
Pathology discussed fluoride poisoning in an article in the April 15, 1961
issue of the British Medical Journal. He noted that the long-term effects of
sodium fluoride ingestion needed much more investigation. He said "Fluoride is
a well-known inhibitor of several enzyme systems".
In 1963 an American
Academy of Sciences study shows low fluoride levels increase
tumors.
Also in 1963 a study is published which links fluorides and
development of cancer in animals. Ref: Irwin Herskowitz and Isabel Norton
"Increased Incidence of Melanotic Tumors...Following Treatment with Sodium
Fluoride", Genetics, Vol 48, pp307-310.
1965 A study is published which
links fluorides to cancer in animals. Ref: A. Taylor and N.C.Taylor, "Effect of
Fluoride on Tumor Growth", Proceedings of the Society of Experimental Biology
and Medicine, Vol 65, pp252-255.
By 1969, the fluoridated cities had an
average cancer death rate of 225 per 100,000 people, while non-fluoridated
cities had an average cancer death rate of 195 per 100,000. The data indicates
a fluoride-linked increase of cancer of 10% in only 13-17 years. These figures
were checked and confirmed in 1979 by the United States National Cancer
Institute.
Germany bans water fluoridation in 1971, Sweden in 1972,
Netherlands in 1973.
1974 The Safe Water Drinking Act is passed.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets maximum contamination levels (MCL)
for various water pollutants, including sodium fluoride. The EPA sets the
fluoride contamination level at an unbelievable 1.4 ppm for "warmer climates"
and up to 2.4 ppm for "colder climates". The American Dental Association begins
pressuring the EPA to raise the MCL for fluoride in public water to 8 ppm, when
it is fully known that systemic damage occurs below 1 pmm. The National
Drinking Water Advisory Council refuses to recommend raising the fluoride MCL,
and came close to recommending its lowering. The EPA then farms out research
work to ICAIR Life Systems, which issues a fraudulent report (confirmed by
ICAIR employee Dr. John Beaver). The report is woven into the US EPA report on
fluoride, resulting in the EPA recommendation of MCL for sodium fluoride in
public water to be 4 ppm.
1975 Dr. John Yiamouyiannis publishes a
preliminary survey which shows that people in fluoridated areas have a higher
cancer death rate than those in non-fluoridated areas. The National Cancer
Institute attempts to refute the studies. Later in 1975, Yiamouyiannis joins
with Dr. Dean Burk, chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute (1939-1974)
in performing other studies which are then included in the Congressional Record
by Congressman Delaney. Delaney was the original author of the Delaney
Amendment, which prohibited the addition of cancer-causing substances to food
used for human consumption. Both reports confirmed the existence of a link
between fluoridation and cancer.
1976 Dr. D.W.Allman and co-workers from
Indiana University School of Medicine feed animals 1 part-per-million (ppm)
fluoride and notice the urinary levels and tissue levels of a substance called
cyclic AMP (adenosine monophosphate) increased by more than 100%. They also
found that in the presence of aluminum in a concentration as small as 20 parts
per billion, fluoride is able to cause an even larger increase in cyclic AMP
levels. Cyclic AMP inhibits the migration rate of white blood cells, as well as
the ability of the white blood cell to destroy pathogenic organisms. Ref:
Journal of Dental Research, Vol 55, Sup B, p523, 1976, "Effect of Inorganic
Fluoride Salts on Urine and Tissue Cyclic AMP Concentration in Vivo". (Note:
Toothpaste tubes containing fluoride at this time were often made of
aluminum.)
The Congressional Subcommitee on Intergovernmental Relations
convenes two (2) full Congressional Hearings on the subject of fluorides in
1977. During the hearing, it was proven that: 1. The "scientific efforts" of
those promoting fluoridation were fraudulent, and 2. Other existing studies
proved beyond a doubt that approximately 10,000 excess cancer deaths per year
could be attributed to fluoridation in the United States.
During the
Congressional Hearings Dr.Yiamouyiannis and Dr. Burk report an increase in
deaths due to water fluoridation. At the conclusion of the hearings
Congressional representative L.H. Fountain, chairman of the 1977 Sub-Committee
Hearings on Fluoride, states that "the carcinogenic nature of fluoride remains
unanswered" and orders the U.S. Public Health Service "to conduct animal
studies to see if fluoride causes cancer". Dr. Herman Kraybill, from the
National Cancer Institute (who in 1972 had been chosen by NCI to write a memo
saying that fluorides do not cause cancer) was placed in charge of these
studies. Kraybill boldly states, "this will be the final study to confirm
negativity of fluoride ions in carcinogenesis." He cites 13 studies having
nothing to do with the subject of fluorides and cancer in order to support his
claim that "no link between fluorides and cancer existed." (NCI Director Dr.
Arthur Upton later admitted the 13 studies had nothing to do with the subject
of the study).
In 1978 the German magazine Stern reports on the
Turkish village of Kizilcaoern, where the drinking water contains 5ppm
fluorides. All of the children have brown teeth. Women produce dead babies
after only four months of pregnancy. All the inhabitants suffer from tremendous
premature aging. The same fluoride-related brittle-bone disorders have been
observed among people drinking water with as little as 0.7 ppm fluoride.
1978 A court case was won in Pennsylvania that proved fluoridation was
harmful and resulted in a ban.
The January 20th, 1979 edition of the
New York Times carries a story in which a child was killed because of a
lethal dose of fluoride at a city dental clinic.
Dr.W.L. Gabler and
Dr.P.A.Long at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center find that as
little as 0.2 ppm fluoride in the body stimulates superoxide production in
white blood cells seriously depressing the ability of white blood cells to
destroy pathogenic agents. Superoxide in the bloodstream also gives rise to
tissue damage and acceleration of the aging process. Ref: "Fluoride Inhibition
of Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes", Journal of Dental Research, Vol 48, No.9,
p1933-1939, 1979.
On November 11th, 1979 up to 50ppm fluoride was dumped
into the Annapolis Maryland water supply, resulting in the poisoning of 50,000
people. Many died of heart failure during the week following the incorrect
dosage.
Drs. Susheela and Sharma and co-workers from the India Institute
of Medical Sciences find that fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of
collagen in the body and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon,
muscle, skin cartilage,lung, kidney and trachea . Fluoride disrupts collagen
synthesis in cells responsible for laying down collagen leading these cells to
attempt to compensate for their inability to put out intact collagen by
producing larger quantities of imperfect collagen and/or non-collagenous
protein. Ref: "Fluoride poisoning and the Effects of Collagen Biosynthesis of
Osseous and Non-osseous Tissue", Toxicological European Research, Vol 3, No.2,
pp99-104, 1981.
Larez does a study in 1981 that shows that fluorides are
teratogenic (cancer-causing) in rats.
Dr.Robert Clark from the Boston
University Medical Center shows that fluorides (as in fluoridated water
supplies, toothpaste,etc) stimulate granule formation and oxygen consumption in
white blood cells when they were not challenged with a foreign agent, but
inhibited these processes when the white blood cell needed them to fight off
foreign agents. Ref: "Neutrophil Iodination Reaction Induced by Fluoride:
Implications for Degranulation and Metabolic Activation" Blood, Vol 57,
pp913-921, 1981.
In 1982 Peter Wilkinson at the University of Glascow
testified before the Scottish High Court in Edinburgh in a legal case entitled
"Inhibition of the Immune System with Low levels of Fluoride" that fluoride
decreases the migration rate of human white blood cells. At a concentration of
.2ppm (.8ppm below the "approved" level of 1 ppm), relative white cell
migration rate is reduced 8%. A concentration of 1ppm would produce a
physiological decline of around 10%. Fluoride added to water supplies, tooth
paste, school dental washes, supplement pills and dentists visits -
increasingly promoted - contribute to a further co-factor in the decline of the
immune capability of the population.
In 1983 a symposium takes place at
the University of Michigan after years of planning between the US Dept of
Health and Human Services, the USPHS Michigan state health plans, the Kellogg
Foundation, and Medical Products Labs. The purpose is to "discuss the status of
organized opposition to fluoridation, to analyze probable motives influencing
the anti-fluoride movement, to develop political and legal strategies for the
defense and promotion of fluoridation, and to assess the need for a national
fluoridation strategy."
Zhang and Zhang publish a study which shows that
fluorides cause birth defects in fish.
The 1984 issue of Clinical
Toxicology of Commercial Products indicates that 1/10 oz of fluoride in the
human body is lethal for a 100 pound adult human. Fluoride toothpaste contains
up to 1mg/gram of fluoride. A whole tube contains about 199 mg of fluoride -
enough to kill a 25-pound child. Toothbrushing with fluoride laced toothpaste
causes ingestion of 0.25 mg/day.
Dr. Takeki Tsutsui of the Nippon Dental
College shows in 1984 that "fluoride caused not only genetic damage but was
also capable of transforming normal human cells into cancer cells." In
Dr.Tsutsui's study, the level of fluoride used was the same level that the
United States National Cancer Institute suggested should be used in a
study to determine whether fluoridation of public water supplies causes cancer.
The level of fluoride deemed "safe" by the United States in 1 ppm. The
researchers found that cells treated with 1 ppm of fluoride in the water
produced cancer.
The Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center reports 87
cases of fluoride poisoning in 1986. Two cases involved fluoride treatment by a
dentist. One 13 month old child died. Twenty five suffered gastrointestinal
symptoms. Sodium fluoride becomes the most frequent single cause of acute
poisoning in children.
Dr.Yiamouyiannis uses the Freedom of
Information Act in 1989 to obtain carcinogenicity studies conducted by Proctor
and Gamble (fluoridated toothpaste). These studies showed dose dependent cell
abnormalities caused by fluoride; confirmed the link between oral precancerous
growth and fluoride, as well as an increase in osteomas (bone tumors) and
osteosarcomas (bone cancer); and the National Cancer Institute found in 1991
that the incidence of bone cancer was 50% higher in men ages 0-19 years of age
exposed to fluoridated water compared to those who were not. February 22, 1990,
Medical Tribune
A study by Hildebolt, et al. on 6,000 school children
contradicts any alleged benefit from the use of sodium fluorides.
On
February 23, 1989, Battelle released the results of its study of fluorides on
mice: fluoride induced the occurrence of an extremely rare form of liver
cancer, called hepatocholangio carcinoma, in fluoride-treated male and female
mice.
On April of 1989, Battelle released the results of its study of
fluorides and rats. The study showed a dose-dependent relationship between the
incidence of oral cancerous tumors and fluorides. The National Cancer Institute
examines the incidence of oral cancer in fluoridated and non-fluoridated
countries over the period from 1973 to 1987 and fings that as exposure to
fluoridation increases, so does the incidence of oral cancer; sometimes as much
as a 50% increase in oral cancer rates occur in fluoridated areas. This
translates to 8,000 new cases of oral and pharyngeal cancer per year, needless
pain and suffering and a financial windfall to the medical and pharmaceutical
factions that concern themselves with treatment.
In 1990 the National
Toxicology Program issues a Press Release with data confirming findings of a
link between fluoride and osteosarcomas as well as higher rates of oral cancer
in rats.
Today,
toxic fluoride waste
products can only be disposed
of in expensive toxic
waste dumps or by being dumped in your
drinking water.
Unpredictable issues
make meaningless any talk about "controlled individual fluoride intake": the
gross variation in individual water consumption, the varied intake of fluorides
in food and the fluoride intake from atmospheric and occupational
exposure. Fluoride compounds are readily absorbed by the
intestines and excreted through the urine.
Trace amounts are
incorporated in bone.
Fluoride combines with
dissolved solids in the water to form potent toxins (such as with aluminum
fluoride, a dangerous neurotoxin).
Many pharmaceuticals are
fluorinated.
One mechanism of toxicity involves the combination of the
fluoride anion with the calcium ions in the blood to form insoluble calcium
fluoride. A possible other mechanism of toxicity could be a recombinant with a
aluminum vaccine adjuvant.
A few organofluorine compounds are extremely
toxic, such as organophosphates like sarin (nerve gas) and
diisopropylfluorophosphate that react with the cholinesterase enzyme at
neuromuscular junctions and thus block the transmission of nerve impulses to
the muscles.
Prior to "fluoridation"
industry spent a fortune disposing of
fluoride toxic
waste, and paying for damages to
livestock and the environment.
"Alcoa's Vancouver, Washington plant was found
guilty of dumping 1,000 to 7,000
pounds of fluoride poison each month into the Columbia River ... The fluoride
contaminated the
grass and forage and resulted in injury and
death to cattle." - Seattle Times, Dec.
16, 1952.
At Vancouver, disposal of 1,000 to 7,000 pounds of fluoride
per month was considered pollution.
City officials dump as much or
more fluoride into municipal water supplies
(5,000 pounds a day in San Francisco). This
is called a "health measure."
"The one utterly relentless force behind
fluoridation is American 'big
industry' and the
motive is not profit as such, but
fear.
Fear of colossal damage suits, and
fear that official intervention will
begin to mushroom wherever fluoride devastates air, water,
soil and all forms of
life. Added to this is
fear of forfeiting the legally
permissible level for dumping fluoride toxic waste into water supplies which is presently in effect
for the specific purpose
of accommodating industry." - F. B.
Exner, Medical Doctor, Fellow of the American College of Radiologists
On March 24, 2006 the National Academy of
Sciences questioned the safety of fluoridated drinking
water. Fluorides have the ability to lower
IQ, cause bone fractures and cause dental fluorosis, a discoloration and
weakening of tooth enamel. The National Academy of Sciences panel noted
that dental fluorosis has been "strongly associated" with IQ deficits. The
National Academy of Sciences is calling upon the Environmental Protection Agency to
review and tighten is standards for fluoride in drinking
water. According to the Environmental
Working Group, fluoride levels in the tap water of 25 of the nation's 28 largest cities
is enough to put 8% to 36% of bottle-fed infants up to 6 months of age over the
recommended safe dose for daily fluoride intake. The Institute of Medicine
of the National Academy of Sciences recommended a limit of 0.7 milligrams
of fluoride per day for children under age
6 months - but this has not been adopted by the Environmental Protection
Agency.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention currently one-third (33%) of children aged 12 to 15 years in
America have very mild to mild forms of enamel fluorosis. A recent study has
raised the possibility that fluoride exposure during the first year of life may
play a more important role on fluorosis development than was previously
understood. It now appears that the amount of the fluoride contained in the
water used for mixing infant formula may influence a child's risk for
developing enamel fluorosis, particularly if the child's sole source of
nutrition is from reconstituted infant
formula.
"Jon Roth, executive director of the California
Dental Assn. Foundation, said: "The science is crystal clear. The
unfortunate thing is there are still folks out there who do a good job of
cherry-picking the scientific information. ... I don't know where the
motivation comes from. I just don't get it." Roth needs to examine a 2006
report by the United States National Research Council, "Fluoride in
Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards." It concluded that
the maximum level of fluoride in drinking water of 4 milligrams per liter
should be lowered. The report examines dental effects, musculoskeletal effects,
bone fractures, reproductive and developmental effects, neurotoxicity,
endocrine effects, carcinogenicity, as well as drinking water standards and
other public health issues, and offers a detailed list of research needed to
fill in the gaps in information about fluoride. Although the report does not
take a stand against fluoridation of drinking water, it notes that it is
dangerous for people with kidney problems. China, Japan and many European
countries have rejected, banned or discontinued water fluoridation. This issue
should be taken seriously." - Nancy Barth
endocrine disruptorsScientists who compared frogs collected over
the last 150 years have discovered a
dramatic increase in hermaphrodites during the times when
contamination from the pesticide DDT and
other chlorinated compounds was
widespread. Frogs with both
male and female
reproductive organs were rare in the 19th
and early 20th centuries but more common during the 1950s, when the
largest volumes of the chemicals
were used.
The
findings, reported in the journal Environmental Health
Perspectives, add to the
growing evidence that an array of pesticides and
industrial
chemicals can alter the sex
hormones of animals. The ability of certain
chemicals, endocrine disruptors, to
mimic or block estrogen and testosterone, which are key in sexual organ
development and
reproduction, is considered one of the
most disturbing discovered in
environmental science of the last
decade.
Sperm counts of males in developed countries has
dropped drastically in the last few years.
The Disappearing
Male
perfluorooctanoic acid, PFOA,
C8Pertluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, poses a "substantial risk of
injury to human health or the
environment," including a risk
of birth defects according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
PFOA, invented in 1938, is an
essential ingredient in the making of
stick-resistant Teflon, which is used in cook-ware, clothing, bedding and an
array of other household
products.
PFOA is
present in the blood of nearly
all the 1,500 humans who have been tested in the United States, including young
children. Perfluorooctanoic acid is
transferred to fetuses in the womb. Animal tests have shown that high doses of
the PFOA causes liver cancer, immune
suppression and developmental
disorders. PFOA exposure may increase
cholesterol and triglyceride levels in people.
Toxicologists have reported that levels
found in some children are as high as
those found in chemical plant
workers and approach those that caused
developmental
problems in rats.
Most of the
research was conducted by
scientists for 3M Company, which was the
main manufacturer of PFOA until 2002, when it voluntarily stopped making it.
3M Company also removed its Scotchgard
products from the
market because they contained a
related chemical.
DuPont is
the only United States manufacturer of perfluorooctanoic acid. Seven other
companies, 3M/Dynean Co., a unit of 3M, French company Arkema Inc., Japan's AGC
Chemical/Asahi Glass, Switzerland's Ciba Specialty Chemicals Holding Inc.,
Japan's Daikin Industries Ltd, Switzerland's Clariant Corp. and Italy's Solvay
Solexis use PFOA in other products such as textiles, automobile fuel systems,
computer chips, telecommunications equipment, electronic wiring, fire fighting
foams and certain paper. These 8 companies use 75% of the PFOA - China uses
25%. The Environmental Protection
Agency has asked these eight firms to reduce their use of perfluorooctanoic
acid by 95% by 2010 and to halt use by 2015.
DuPont internal memos
indicated that DuPont was aware in
March 1981 of a study conducted by 3M that showed PFOA was harmful to newborn
rats, killing some and causing some to be born
with eye and face defects.
In 1981 DuPont moved female employees out of PFOA areas at the plant and told
them to consult doctors before getting pregnant. DuPont did not inform the
Environmental Protection Agency.
The Environmental Protection Agency
said its investigation into the safety of the
chemical might have come sooner if
DuPont's evidence had been known in
1981.
PFOA persists in the environment indefinitly and has been found in
the blood of polar bears.
DuPont proposed a settlement in 2004 with as many as
60,000 residents of Ohio and West Virginia of six area
water districts with
ground water contaminated with PFOA which the company has
used to manufacture Teflon and other products since 1951.
In 2005
Minnesota residents claimed 3M discharged PFOA and PFOS, perfluorooctanoic
sulfonate, in Washington County contaminating ground and well
water.
On July 11, 2005 DuPont's former medical director
revealed that more than 20 years ago the company became
aware of birth defects in 2 of 8
children born to women who worked at one of their facilities manufacturing
Teflon. Similar birth defects occur in the general public at a rate of 2 in
every 1,000 births.
DuPont settled charges in 2005, made by the
Environmental Protection Agency,
that the company hid data for more than 20 years that PFOA posed substantial
health risks to humans. DuPont paid a fine of $16.5 million for violating the
ToxicSubstances Control Act by
suppressing health and safety
data.
DuPont has sold or licensed over $40 billion in
Teflon cookware over the past 40 years.
Perfluorooctanoic acid can leach into food from
packaging. PFOA is still used to coat food packaging to keep oils from
bleeding into the packaging. Some researchers contend that the
chemical can leach into french
fries from the small bags used typically by fast food chains. Perfluorooctanoic
acid can also leach onto popcorn as the microwavable packaging is coated with a
teflon-like material. Perfluorooctanoic acid is also used to coat pizza
delivery boxes. When heated perfluorooctanoic acid can be released from the
packaging.
People with the higher PFOA levels were more than twice as
likely to have thyroid diseases.
methyl tert-butyl ether or
MTBE MTBE is manufactured by the
chemical reaction of methanol and
isobutylene. It was produced in very large quantities of more than 200,000
barrels per day in the United States in
1999. Methyl tert-butyl ether has been used in
gasoline at low levels since 1979 to
replace tetra-ethyl lead to increase its octane rating. Since 1992, MTBE has
been used at higher concentrations in some
gasoline to fulfill the oxygenate
requirements set by Congress in Clean Air Act amendments.
On August 31,
2001, it was reported that a new study by an associate professor of chemistry
at Purdue University concludes that MTBE is showing up in
gasoline supplies in systems where
the fuel additive is not required. The study examined 200 samples of gas taken
from stations in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan and found that over 70% of the
samples contained MTBE and 25% of the samples contained "significant amounts of
MTBE. One ounce of MTBE can contaminate 1,000 tons of
water.
On August 27, 2001, it was
reported that according to data from California's Water Resources Control
Board, 48 public water drinking systems,
serving hundreds of thousands of residents have been
contaminated with MTBE. This is in addition
to tens of thousands of private wells throughout
California and hundreds of thousands of
private wells nationwide.
In August, 2001, Shell, Chevron,
Texaco, Equilon Enterprises and
Unocal companies have settled a lawsuit filed by an environmental group which
requires the oil companies to remediate MTBE contaminated ground water at a minimum of 700 sites in California.
On August 10, 2001Exxon agreed to pay $12 million in partial
reimbursement of what South Lake Tahoe Public Utility has paid to remediate
MTBE from ground
water which had to close 12 of its 34
drinking water wells.
In 2003,
ChevronTexaco paid $9.1 million to
settle a lawsuit arising from MTBE ground
water contamination in Cambria, California.
In February, 2004 a California Superior Court judge approved a
settlement agreement between a dozen firms and the City of Santa Monica,
California over ground
water contaminated with the
gasoline additive MTBE. Santa Monica
closed 7 of 11 drinking water wells in its
Charnock well field in 1996 after discovering MTBE
contamination. The settlement, which is
valued at $312 million, includes $100 million in cash payments plus "a
potentially unlimited obligation to cleanup up the wells." Defendants included
in this settlement are: ChevronTexaco, Chevron USA Inc.,
Chevron Products Co., ExxonMobil, Shell
Oil Co., Shell Oil Products Co., Shell Pipeline Corp., Equilon Enterprises,
Equilon Pipeline Co., Texaco Refining and Marketing Inc. Thrifty Oil Co., and
Best California Gas. This is believed to be the largest settlement to date for
MTBE contamination.
By November 1,
2004 New York State had identified over 13,000 sites with
ground water contaminated by the
gasoline additive MTBE. New York had
allowed gasoline sold in the state
to include 12 to 15 percent MTBE, some of the highest mixtures in the nation.
MTBE contamination has been discovered in
ground water in 28 states and estimates of the costs
to cleanup the contamination range from $30
billion to $100 billion. The estimated costs to filter some 130 municipal
drinking water wells in Plainview Long
Island (New York) ranges from $390 million to $1 billion. New York has removed
some 6,000 leaking under ground storage
tanks.
By January, 2005 oil companies agreed to pay nearly a half
billion dollars to settle
lawsuits filed on behalf of municipalities over MTBE
contaminated ground water.
In February 4, 2005
ChevronTexaco agreed to settle a
lawsuit by paying $850,000 for ground
water contaminated with MTBE. The suit was filed by
the Los Osos Community Services District after MTBE from a former gas station
contaminated ground water and at least one drinking
water well.
In February, 2005 the
Environmental Protection Agency
announced another settlement with a dozen oil companies over MTBE
contaminated ground water beneath Santa Monica, California. The
settling companies, which will pay $1.5 million to end the suit, include Shell
Oil Co.; Shell Oil Products Co.; Equilon Enterprises; Shell Pipeline Co.; TRM
Co.; ChevronTexaco.; Chevron USA
Inc.; Exxon Mobil Corp.; Mobil Oil Corp.; Thrifty Oil Co.; and Best California
Gas. The companies have already extracted nearly 350 million gallons of
contaminated ground water.
In March, 2005 estimates of
cleanup costs necessary to remediate MTBE contaminated ground water nationwide run between $29 billion and
$92 billion. Some 140 municipalities and water companies have filed lawsuits against
petro industry defendants over ground
water contaminated with the fuel additive MTBE. The
lawyer representing the plaintiffs has already won over $400 million in
settlements from petro industry defendants. Lyondell Chemical is the largest
manufacturer of MTBE in the United States
In April, 2005 twelve oil
companies, Premcor Refining Group, Conoco Inc., Tosco Corp., Shell Oil Co.,
Shell Oil Products Co., Phillips Petroleum Co., BP Products North America Inc.,
BP Amoco Chemical Co., Union Oil Co. of California, UNO-VEN Co., Citgo
Petroleum Corp., and PDV Midwest Refining LLC, have agreed to pay $8 million to
the Village of East Alton, Illinois to settle their liability for drinking
water wells contaminated with MTBE. Two gas stations are
believed to be the source of the
contamination.
In July, 2005
twenty-one United States Senators have asked the
Environmental Protection Agency to
provide them with information contained in a draft report currently being
reviewed by the agency that concludes that the
gasoline additive MTBE should be
labeled a likely human carcinogen. A provision which would have granted MTBE
makers immunity from liability for cleanup costs related to
ground water contaminated by MTBE was been stripped from the
Energy bill. Tens of thousands of sites in America have been identified with
ground water contaminated with MTBE, including
ground water that serves as drinking
water for tens of millions of
Americans.
The FDA's BPA draft assessment of 2008 says
bisphenol
A is safe, ignoring numerous independent and government-funded studies
which show risk of harm including brain and prostate damage to developing
infants, fetuses, and children, as well as increased risk of diabetes and heart
disease. Instead, the FDA relied on two studies funded by an arm of the
American Chemistry Council, a trade organization representing chemical
manufacturers.The Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human
Reproduction was established within the National Institutes of
Health to assess the dangers of chemicals to human reproductive health. As
with most government programs to study the effects of industry on humans the
bulk of the work is outsourced to industry sponsored "think tanks".
In
the case of bisphenol A the study work was done by Sciences
International which has been funded by BASF, Dow Chemical, Dupont, Chevron,
ExxonMobile, 3-M, Union Carbide, the National Association of
Manufactures as well as numerous other manufactures and industry groups.
More than 100 government studies confirmed the ability of bisphenol A
to mimic estrogen, cause genetic changes that lead to prostate cancer,
decreased testosterone, low sperm counts and early female fertility. About a
dozen industry studies found no ill effects.
Sciences
International reviews the scientific literature, writes the basic report,
"suggests" who should be a member of the scientific review panel, sets the
parameters and the agenda under which the panel operates. The scientific review
panel released study results in March 2007 claiming bisphenol A had not been
conclusively proven to have any detrimental effects on humans.
Some
polymers manufactured with bisphenol A are FDA-approved for use as food
additives.
Bisphenol
A was first investigated in the 1930s during the search for synthetic
estrogens.
At that time, another synthetic compound,
diethylstilbestrol, was determined to be more powerful than estrogen itself, so
bisphenol
A was not used as a synthetic estrogen.
Bisphenol
A current uses are as a primary monomer in polycarbonate plastic and epoxy
resins.
Bisphenol
A is also used as an antioxidant in plasticizers and as a polymerization
inhibitor in PVC.
In test animals
bisphenol
A in concentrations lower than those set by the Environmental Protection
Agency have caused permanent changes to the genital tract, changes in breast
tissue that predispose cells to hormones and carcinogens, 30% increase in
prostate weight, signs of early puberty, decline in testicular testosterone,
breast cells predisposed to cancer, prostate cells more sensitive to hormones
and cancer, insulin resistance, decreased maternal behavior, damage to eggs and
chromosomes, hyperactivity and reversal of normal sex difference in brain
structure.
"Small amounts of estrogenic
chemicals, bisphenol A for example,
can permanently disrupt cellular control
systems and predispose the
prostate to disease in adulthood," said Barry G. Timms, a professor of
biomedical sciences at the University
of South Dakota who specializes in prostate biology.
"Exposure before birth to bisphenol A and
other estrogen mimics at low doses
explains why we have this increase in incidences of both
breast and prostate
cancers," said Patricia Hunt,
professor School of Molecular Biosciences at Washington State
University.
"The failure to
report the toxic effects of
bisphenol
A in plastics follows a familiar pattern
in which the industry involved adamantly denies any harm despite overwhelming
animal studies to the contrary. Many neurodegenerative diseases, from
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder to
brain tumors, are dramatically rising in the Western
culture, especially in children. Those
individuals who have a genetic susceptibility to a given toxic substance or
combination of substances are at high risk for developing overt disease.
Because many toxic substances are present in common foods, cleaners, clothes,
personal items and other household products, consumers and especially parents
would be well advised to become aware and avoid
exposure." - Dennis Schumacher MD
"Reading the comments of Steve Hentges of the
American Chemistry
Council's polycarbonate/BPA group gave me a profound feeling of deja vu.
Steve Hentges' denigration of scientific evidence of the
probable health of
bisphenol
A (BPA) echoed the comments, over years, of "scientists" from the
tobacco industry denigrating
scientific findings of
tobacco's health risks. One suspects that
all the evidence that is needed to prove the of BPA is in locked flies of the
plastics industry." - Norman Decker MD
"Researchers focused on 634 male workers at four
factories in China who were exposed to elevated levels of BPA. They followed
the men over five years and compared their sexual health with that of male
workers in other Chinese factories where BPA was not present. The men handling
BPA were four times as likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction and seven
times as likely to have difficulty with ejaculation, said De-Kun Li, a
scientist at the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, which conducted the
study with funds from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health." - Lyndsey Layton, November 11, 2009
Bisphenol A is one of the reasons that sperm counts
are so low in developed countries. 1 in 6 American males can now expect to have
prostrate cancer. Bisphenol A is one
of the reasons that breast cancer has increased in America.
phthalates
Toxicologists have
known since the early 1990s that some
pesticides and industrial compounds,
including phthalates, can mimic estrogen or block testosterone, the female and
male sex hormones that control
reproductive
development.
Scientists
studying the effects of hormone mimicking
chemicals on
humans have reported in May 2005 that
phthalates, used in plastics and beauty
products and widely found in
humans, alter the reproductive organs of baby boys.
In the first study of humans
exposed in the womb to phthalates researchers examined the genitalia of
male babies and toddlers, found a strong relationship between the
chemicals and changes in the size
and anatomy of the children's genitals.
Mothers with the highest levels of
chemical in their urine late in
their pregnancies had babies with a cluster of effects. The span between anus
and penis, called anogenital distance, was comparatively short, and the infants
had smaller penises and scrotums and more instances of
incomplete descent of testicles.
Phthalate levels associated with the genital changes were not unusually high
for the general population.
Reproductive biologists say that a
shorter anogenital distance is a female like effect in animals, a telltale sign of decreased male hormones, and that it is
likely that the human effects are
similar, because hormones function the same in animals and humans.
In the late 1990s that a
review of sperm counts in developed nations showed a
substantial decline since World War
II, when many synthetic pesticides and industrial compounds were introduced into
the environment. Previous studies of men have linked phthalates to low sperm quality. Nearly
everyone in a 1999-2000 survey of 2,500 humans throughout
America had phthalates in their urine.
Toys, baby bottle nipples, pacifiers, teething rings, vinyl bath toys,
medical equipment, hairspray, deodorants, perfumes, vinyl products including
upholstery, packaging, wall and floor covering, nail polishes and
other
beauty
products sold in
America contain phthalates which has been
banned in the Europe and Japan.
Europe has banned 2 phthalates found in cosmetics
and 6 phthalates found in toys. Japan, Mexico and Canada has also banned
phthalates. America is one of a few industrialized countries in which
phthalates are still used."America has become a dumping ground for
chemical filled toys that are banned in much of the industrialized world." -
Fiona Ma
trichloroethylene,
or TCE Senior Environmental Protection Agency
scientists came to an alarming conclusion in 2001:
The solvent,
trichloroethylene, or TCE, is as much as 40 times more likely to cause
cancer than the
Environmental Protection Agency had
previously believed.
The preliminary report in 2001 laid the groundwork
for tough new standards to limit public exposure to trichloroethylene.
The
assessment set off a battle between the Environmental Protection Agency and
Department of Defense, which had more than a 1400
military properties nationwide
polluted with trichloroethylene.
After a prolonged challenge orchestrated by the Pentagon, the
Environmental Protection Agency's
trichloroethylene assessment was cast aside.
Millions of
Americans have been and are being
contaminated by trichloroethylene.
Huge swaths of California, Texas, New York and Florida lie over
trichloroethylene plumes.
The San Fernando and San Gabriel (30 square
miles) valley aquifers of the Los Angeles basin are largely
contaminated with trichloroethylene and
there is high ambient levels of trichloroethylene in the air. 243 wells have
been shut down and in some cases water
agencies use cleaner water to dilute
trichloroethylene contaminated
ground water.
Several remedial settlements
have been reached over trichloroethylene contaminated ground water in San Bernardino, California - Lockheed
Martin; Lisle, Illinois and DuPage County, Illinois - Lockformer Co.; Dayhoit,
Kentucky -National Electric Coil/Cooper Industries; Warren, Rhode Island -
Jones Apparel/Victoria Creations; Urbana, Ohio - Siemens Energy &
Automation Inc. and Nikko Materials USA
Indoor air in homes near
contaminated sites contain enough
trichloroethylene to create an elevated
cancer risk.
Trichloroethylene has been linked to liver, pancreatic and kidney
cancers, birth defects and childhood
leukemia.
"The evidence on trichloroethylene is
overwhelming. We have 80 epidemiological
studies and hundreds of toxicology
studies. They are fairly consistent in finding
cancer risks that cover a range of
tumors." - Dr. Gina Solomon, an environmental medicine
expert at UC San Francisco
polytetrafluoroethylenePTFE was
discovered serendipitously in 1938 by a DuPont chemist, Roy Plunkett, who found
that a tank of gaseous tetrafluoroethylene (CF2=CF2) had polymerized to a white
powder.
DuPont, which continues to manufacture polytetrafluoroethylene
(PTFE) resin or Teflon, reached a $16.5 million settlement with the
Environmental Protection Agency to
settle allegations the company hid information about the
of a
toxic
chemical
known as PFOA used in
the manufacture of Teflon. DuPont covered up important information about
PFOA's health effects and about the
pollution of
water supplies near the company's
Washington Works plant for 20 years.
Scientific studies have found that Teflon
(PTFE) is in the blood of almost
all Americans. Teflon is used as an inert
in pesticide formulations applied to growing crops or to raw agricultural
commodities after harvest.
Polytetrafluoroethylene
(PTFE) Tetrafluoroethylene and Teflon
Polytetrafluoroethylene
Polytetrafluoroethylene
– PTFE
Teflon
(PTFE: polytetrafluoroethylene) CAS No. 9002-84-0
Pyrethroids, synthetic versions of
natural compounds found in
flowers, are used extensively in
pesticides . Pyrethroids have been considered safer than
DDT and chlordane because they do not seem to
build up in the environment.
Pyrethroids are the second most
common class of pesticide that
results in poisoning. In high doses, pyrethroids are
toxic to the nervous
system. At low doses, they alter
hormones. The pyrethroid compounds are used in large volumes in farm and
household pesticides and are sprayed by public agencies to
kill mosquitoes.
polybrominated diphenyl ethers or PBDEPolybrominated diphenyl ethers, PBDE's are
used as flame retardants, are
bioaccumulating in human bodies throughout America. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers are
being spread by an array of store-bought
foods as well as dust inside
homes and offices, scientists have
discovered.
Created by chemical companies to make hard plastic and
polyurethane foam less flammable, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are
added to computers, televisions,
furniture cushions, upholstery textiles, carpet backings, mattresses, cars,
buses, aircraft and building construction materials.
High
concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers were detected in a
variety of fish, meat and fowl in
America. In America human bodies carry 20 times more on
average than in Europe. Americans are
breathing much higher levels found in their household dust compared with
European homes.
PBDEs escape as a gas from hard plastic and polyurethane
foam - especially newer computers, furniture and
other
products - and then adhere to
dust.
"There is more or less a continuous
exposure, and there is
absolutely no
way to really
control it. You have almost a 24-hour
exposure, except for the
time you are outside," said Aake Bergman, head
of environmental chemistry at
Stockholm University in Sweden and a leading authority on
flame retardants.
The
flame retardants have been detected in
virtually every individual and
animal tested, even newborns and fetuses, around
the world, including Australia and the Arctic.
Amounts in humans and
wildlife are doubling in North
America every four to six years, a pace
unmatched for any contaminant in at least 50 years.
"We have two
sources:
Food is one and indoor
air is
another. We now
know that the
sources are inside our houses, inside our
buildings," said Mehran Alaee of Canada's National Water Research
Institute.
"PBDEs are found in almost all
foods of animal origin; and some have very high levels of
these chemicals," said a report by
University of Texas environmental scientist Arnold
Schecter.
Farm-raised fish contained 5 to 6 times more than
wild fish. Other foods that
contained high levels of PBDEs included pork sausage, duck and hot dogs. Beef
had the lowest levels, followed by goose, pheasant, scallops, canned tuna and
wild coho salmon. Chicken
contained moderate amounts. PBDEs bind to fat so trimming excess
fat, eating lean meats and avoiding large,
predatory fish is advised - especially for pregnant and nursing women.
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers bioaccumulate in body
fat building up over one's
lifetime.
"I am convinced we are building a huge, ticking
time bomb
in our environment
today," said Aake Bergman, who has
studied toxic contaminants since the
1970s.
Hyperthyroidism was rare in cats in America up until about 1980.
By 1980 in California hyperthyroidism rates began to skyrocket in
indoor cats.
Indoor cats lounge on polybrominated diphenyl ether,
flame retardant, treated furniture, grooming
themselves by licking.
In September 2007 a group calling themselves
Californians for Fire Safety launched a campaign to derail a legislative bill
to ban toxic flame retardants. Californians for Fire Safety is comprised of
Albemarle Corporation, Chemtura Corporation, and IC Limited - Industrial
Products.
My uncle was a fire fighter and he believed in the use of
flame retardants. He treated his children's pajamas and used flame retardants
in his house on fabric. My uncle died at 45. His wife and his two children have
had thyroid problems nearly all their lives. My cousin, Ralph, was lethargic
since childhood. He was fairly intelligent but he never had any get up and go.
He only worked about total of 2 years, short lived jobs, out of his adult life.
He once told an employer that it was to hard to get out of bed to go to work.
Ralph died at age 53.
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers flame retardants
are poisoning us all.
In a study in 2010 each tenfold increase in blood
concentration of PBDEs was linked to a 30% decrease in the likelihood of
becoming pregnant each month.
"One of the strongest associations of
PBDEs is with thyroid hormone. Thyroid hormone does seem to play an important
role in fertility. Either too low or too high levels can impair fertility.
PBDEs also seem to mimic estrogen. We know these endocrine-disrupting chemicals
can affect the next generation's fertility." - Kim Harley
perchlorateThe
Environmental Protection Agency
published a draft assessment which concluded that perchlorate is harmful to the
human thyroid, particularly in infants, when concentration in drinking
water exceed one part per billion (ppb).
In 2004 Food and Drug
Administration found perchlorate contamination in nearly all of the milk and
lettuce samples tested.
Perchlorate is a
toxic component used in the
manufacture of solid rocket fuel, highway safety flares, matches and fireworks.
The States of Maryland and Massachusetts have adopted a safety limit on
perchlorate in drinking water of 1 ppb.
California has set a preliminary limit of 6 ppb for perchlorate in
drinking water.
The Food and Drug Administration found perchlorate
in 104 milk samples taken from milk bought in retail stores in Arizona,
California, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington. The average
concentration of perchlorate in the milk samples was 5.76 parts per billion
(ppb). Thirty-eight percent of the samples had levels over 6 ppb. The Food and Drug Administration also found
perchlorate in 128 samples of lettuce from Arizona, California, Florida, New
Jersey, and Texas.
In February 2005 it was reported by
Texas Tech University's Institute of
Environmental and
Human Health that perchlorate was
found in virtually all samples of women's
breast milk and its levels
were found on average to be almost two times greater than in cow's milk. The
highest levels found in breast milk, 92 parts per billion (ppb) and 51 ppb came
from two New Jersey women. Samples exceeding 30 ppb were found in women from
New Mexico, Missouri and Nebraska. The average for all samples was 10.5 ppb.
The study found that a 9 pound baby drinking breast milk with 10.5 ppb of
perchlorate would ingest more than double the amount of perchlorate deemed safe
by a recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report.
The findings
concern health experts because
infants and fetuses are the most vulnerable to the thyroid-impairing
effects of the chemical. Perchlorate blocks
the nutrient iodide and inhibits thyroid hormones, which are necessary for
brain development and cellular
growth of a fetus or infant. A baby with impaired thyroid
development may have neurological
defects that result in lower IQ, mental retardation,
loss of hearing and speech and motor
skills deficits.
American women
with low iodine levels exposed to a perchlorate concentration in the
water of 4 parts per million, 11 million
people in 26 states, have suppressed
thyroid function which can lead to health problems in them and abnormal brain
development in their offspring. 111,1 women tested had an average percholate
level of 2.9 parts per million.
The new findings in 2006 suggest that
the Environmental Protection
Agency's suggested limit of percholate in drinking
water, modified by the
George W. Bush administration to 25
ppb, is 10 times higher than it should be. If the
Environmental Protection Agency had
set a standard lower than 5 ppb, as research suggested, the
expected costs of cleanup to the United
States Department of Defense and several of its major contractors was many
billions of dollars.
Olin
Corp. is the liable party for perchlorate contamination in hundreds of drinking
water wells in Santa Clara County,
California. The ten mile plume of contamination emanated from a former flare
manufacturing plant Olin Corp. operated from 1955 to 1996. Tests of Santa Clara
wells have found some 227 wells with perchlorate above the states safety limit
of 6 parts per billion. Some wells had levels above 100 parts per
billion.
In San Bernardino, California, Lockheed Martin agreed to clean
up perchlorate contaminated
ground water.
By September 2005 the
Environmental Protection Agency has
identified 395 sites throughout the country with
ground water contaminated by perchlorate - over half of
which are in California and Texas. Only 51 of these at that time where
undergoing remediation.
"Mercury, in its two most common forms that
threaten human health - methylmercury and ethylmercury (thimerosal used in
vaccines) - is the second most toxic substance perhaps after uranium. It is
over one hundred times more toxic than lead.There is a direct relationship
between vaccination and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Federal health officials
were complicit in covering up the associations between vaccines and
neurological damage. It is a crime to inject mercury into the bodies of any
pregnant woman and child, while knowing that thimerosal is extremely toxic.
A three year investigation conducted by the Subcommittee on Human
Rights and Wellness in the House's Committee on Government Reform, spearheaded
by Rep. Dan Burton was published in May 2003. The Committee's 80-page report,
"Mercury in Medicine: Taking Unnecessary Risks," is a clear indictment charging
the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with scientific bias, prejudiced
financial interests with vaccine makers, and administrative incompetence that
puts Americans' health at risk. Dr. David Baskin, Professor of Neurosurgery at
Baylor College of Medicine, told the Committee that brain tissue absorbs
mercury five times more than other body tissues. And infants and small children
are furthermore five times more sensitive to mercury's toxicological effects
compared to adults. The FDA has never required manufacturers to conduct
adequate safety testing on thimerosal and ethylmercury compounds." - Richard
Gale and Dr Gary Null Remember the Mad Hatter in Alice in
Wonderland? It was known at that
time that anyone who worked with felt, felt
hats in this case, for many years went crazy.
Why? Mercury was used in the process
of making felt!
AlliedSignal released
mercury begining in 1917 into
Onondaga Lake near Syracuse, New York.
AlliedSignal is estimated to have dumped 165,000 pounds of
mercury into the lake.
Onondaga Lake is listed as a federal Superfund
site. Other industrial pollutants dumped include benzene, toluene,
PCBs, dioxins and furans.
The state cleanup plan, which may take 17 years to complete, calls for the
company to dredge and cap over 2,329 acres at a cost of $2.33 billion.
A volunteer study in 2006 linked
mercury poisoning to
consumption of fish.
"We saw a direct relationship between people's
mercury levels and the amount of
store bought fish, canned tuna fish or locally caught fish people consumed,"
said Steve Patch, co-director of the Environmental Quality Institute at
University of North Carolina.
In 2004 my
aunt, virtually a health nut through proper
excercise and diet, was feeling poorly.
She was found to have extremly high levels of
mercury in her body. Her doctor
prescribed a diet which avoided all fish to solve the
problem. Her
mercury levels decreased but once she
started eating fish again and her mercury level went through the roof!
Do you
believe government mandated
vaccines are safe?
Eli
Lilly donated more than a half million
dollars to congressional candidates in the 2001 election cycle.
Eli Lilly was then exempted in the
Homeland Security Act from liability for the
mercury base
thimerosal, a
vaccine preservative that is 50%
mercury by weight, which causes nerve
damage in infants, sometimes resulting in autism.
Thimerosal, an organomercury compound
(sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate), is a preservative widely used in childhood
vaccines since the 1930s.
"When the
conspirators get ready to take over the United States they will use
fluoridated water and
vaccines to change people's attitudes
and loyalties and make them docile, apathetic, unconcerned and groggy.
According to their own writings and the
means they have already confessedly employed,
the conspirators have
deliberately planned and developed
methods to mentally deteriorate, morally debase, and
completely enslave the masses. They
will prepare vaccines containing drugs
that will completely change people. These plans called for compulsory
vaccination with
vaccines containing
change agent viruses. They also plan on using
disease germs, fluoridation and vaccinations to weaken the people and
reduce the population." - Bertrand Russell, Impact of Science on
Society
The DPT vaccine
(diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine) with a Thermasol
mercury base, has never been safe for
all children. DNA differences in
individuals cause different
individuals to grow at different
rates and to have different reactions.
When my first
son got his first DPT shot he became sick and
his behavior was modified. I refused
to allow him to have other DPT
injections as required by law (thus becoming a
criminal) because of the way in
which the thimerosal in the
vaccine affected him. His
mother considered me an idiot for not towing
the policy line and obeying the
goverment decree.
In October,
2004 a study by researches at Columbia University found that
mercury contained in the
vaccine preservative
thimerosal can cause autism-like
symptoms in a specific strain of mice. The study raises questions as to whether
some people may be genetically vulnerable to the effects of
thimerosal.
In December, 2004, a
professor of biochemistry and pediatrics at the University of Arkansas
discovered that children with autism had lower levels of a
mercury detoxifying
chemical, glutathoine, which helps
rid the body of mercury and other
heavy metals. The study raises concern that children with lower levels of
glutathoine may be more prone to neurological damage when exposed to
mercury in
vaccines or other
sources.
In March, 2005 researchers
from the University of Texas Health Science Center concluded that autism rates
are higher in Texas counties with high levels of reported
mercury emissions. The counties with
facilities releasing high levels of mercury emissions had an average 17%
increase in the rate of autism for every 1,000 pounds of
mercury discharged.
In March
3, 2006 a new study by Dr. Mark Geier, published in the Journal of American
Physicians and Surgeons, found a reduced incidence of autism using
vaccines that did not contain the
mercury containing preservative
thimerosal.
In March, 2006
researchers at University of California Davis linked
thimerosal to immune system dysfunction
in mice. Many autistic children have irregular immune systems. The study found
that thimerosal "dramatically" altered
immune system cells and "even extremely small amounts of
thimerosal interfered significantly"
with immune system cells after just a few minutes of
exposure.
Thimerosal is still found in some ear
and nose drops, skin creams, cosmetics and adult diphtheria and tetanus
vaccines.
Children's flu
vaccines can be found either with or
without thimerosal, although the
thimerosal containing version is far
more prevalent.
"Another CDC-funded study uses spin tactics in its
attempt to clear thimerosal of any
connection with neuro-developmental
disorders. The apparent disregard of the many disconcerting findings in this
study is misleading at best and fraudulent at worst. The most distressing thing
is that the people we should be able to trust most are compromising the truth
at the expense of the health and safety of our children." - Cathy Buckly
10/02/07
"The developing brain is very plastic, and language development
is critical during the first nine to 10 months of age, and any insult to the
developing brain may affect it. A multiple vaccine blast to the developing brain may
be implicated. When it is given, however, may be more critical. Researchers
need to focus on the timing of vaccination." - Sally Cox
Before
1989 children routinely received only 3
vaccines before first grade.
In 1989 the rate of autism was 1 in 2,500
children.
Ten years later in 1999, after much lobbying from the drug
companies, the CDC started recommending 22
vaccines before the first grade.
By 2003, with the dramatically increased rates of
vaccinations, 1 in
166 children were diagnosed with autism.
In March of 2008 Officials at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged that Hannah Poling received a
series of vaccines when she was 19
months old that lead to her being diagnosed as autistic.My son is
now attending Cal Tech, has earned a Master's and is
working on his Doctorate. I will
always feel I made a
wise decision in his case.
Prefer to
have an autistic son or
daughter,
follow the
government mandated
vaccination program!
For him
to attend public
school I was required to have him
vaccinated and I did, four years
later. Four years later his brain had matured and the
thimerosal
mercury base of the DPT did not
change his
behavior as it had initially.
I thank God that I was paying attention.
If government mandated
vaccines are safe then why did the
government pass the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Act?
And
why do lawyers for the Justice Department insist that settlements for injuries
remain unpublished and not added to the legal databases?
The justice
department finally settled with Lori Barton whose son Dustin died of complications from a
vaccination. Lori Barton testified
before a congressional committee in 2001 about how she
felt about the gag order' "To me, it
was extortion."
Peter H. Meyers, a law professor at
George Washington University
stated that the Justice Department was " a stupendous
success in
protecting the
vaccine industry ."
Of course
there is only one answer for this and that
is that the government does not want the
public to
understand that there are
risks involved with vaccinations! And
to think it is highly possible that no
child would be effected if the
time line had been
changed as evidence mounted and they were
just allowed to grow a year or two more before receiving the
vaccine!
"Declining
vaccination rates, if they
exist, can be attributed to a conflicted
government safety program, not parents. It is too early to determine whether
autism rates were affected by the thimerosal removal. Public health
authorities aggressively marketed mercury containing flu
vaccines to pregnant women and
children. An excessive vaccine
schedule continues unabated even as evidence mounts that
vaccines cause harm." - Robert J
Krakow 08
"As the parent of a child who developed seizures following her
initial vaccines at the age of 2
months, I refuse to defend my position not to
vaccinate her or her younger brothers.
I am not anti-vaccine but am suspicious of the industry, knowing that it is
just that an industry. Some would say that we've replaced the hideous diseases
of the past with new autoimmune disorders, and who is to say which is worse?" -
Elizabeth Aquino 08
With the swine flu panic of 2009 the federal
government lifted the level of thimerosal allowed in the
vaccine.
What
about other
vaccines? A study released in February
2005 concluded that increases in influenza vaccinations from 15% to 65% of the
elderly population over 65
from 1968 to 2001 had no effect on elderly mortality rates which remained
stable.
Defunct
chemical maker HoltraChem is
responsible for mercury
contaminated soil at an Orrington, Maine site alongside the
Penobscot River.
"Nationally, the
average coal-fired power plant reported 84 pounds of
mercury emissions in 2003. The
average chlorine plant reported more than 1,074 pounds. Of the 100 power plants
with the most mercury emissions, the
average total air discharges was 484 pounds - less than half the average from a
chlorine plant." - Ken Ward Jr. of the Charleston Gazette used
Environmental Protection Agency
data and records to show that a chlorine-producing plant in Natrium is West
Virginia's single-largest air polluter, emitting more than 1,200 pounds of
mercury into the air every year.
pesticides
DDT was first synthesized in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler, but its
insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939, by the Swiss scientist
Paul Hermann Müller, who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology
and Medicine for his efforts.
DDT is a colourless crystalline
substance which is practically insoluble
in water but highly soluble in fats and
most organic solvents.
DDT was banned in the 1970s because it followed
the principle of biological magnification, killing higher level organisms like the birds by
creating extra thin egg shells.
DDT is present in the Palos Verdes
sediments, Los Angeles largely as a result of wastewater discharges from the
former Montrose Chemical Corporation DDT manufacturing plant in Torrance,
California, which operated from 1947 to 1983. Wastewater containing significant
concentrations of DDT, over 1,700 tons of DDT, was discharged from the Montrose
plant to local sewers. Fish caught off the coast of California from Ventura to
Dana Point contain the highest known concentrations of DDT.
A pesticide
spill which occurred in 1977 at Del Monte Fresh Produce Co.
contaminated a local drinking
water system on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
The site was placed on the Superfund list in 1994 and is
contaminated by the pesticides ethylene
dibromide, dibromo-chloropropane, and trichloropropane.
In 1986 use of
the herbicide Dinoseb was banned after tests concluded that it caused fertility
problems and birth defects in lab animals. In April, 2001 DuPont ceased sales
of Benlate, a fungicide. By that time Benlate had resulted in hundreds of
lawsuits. As of March 2002, DuPont reportedly spent over $1.3 billion on
litigation and damages primarily for property damage to crops, flowers and
ornamental plants damaged by Benlate.
In August, 2001 it was reported
that an analysis of 117 studies of the
incidence of lymphoma in the United States concludes that people most often
develop the cancer in areas with the
highest pesticide and herbicide use. The pesticides most associated with
lymphoma, according to the Lymphoma Foundation of America (LFA) are the
herbicides 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) and triazines (which include
atrazine, cyanazine and simazine). Phosphine compounds also had a high
association with lymphoma. These include: 2,4,5-T, glyphosate, lindane,
carbaryl, chlordane arsenates, diazinon, dichlorovos and malathion. According
to the LFA, the studies also showed a link between lymphoma and
exposure to solvents. 2,4-D first
marketed in the United States in 1940s, is detected in the
ground water in 5 states and in 2003 found in 63% of
home dust samples.
In May 2003 the Delaware Supreme Court rules that
statute of limitations doesn't begin in a toxic exposure case until discovery of a
possible link between substance and
injury. Children born with eye defects that
were originally thought to be genetic were
linked to prenatal exposure to the
pesticide Benlate.
In March, 2004 it was determined that run-off of the
pesticide ICON, active ingredient friponil, manufactured by Aventis CropScience
killed many of some 1,500 crawfish farmer's
crawfish.
In November, 2004 a study by researchers from Emory
University and the University of Washington found an association between
exposure to an organic pesticide and
Parkinson's disease. The pesticide in the study was Rotenone. The scientists
state that they "think this is an important proof of the concept that what we
eat, drink, breath or are otherwise exposed to predisposes us to Parkinson's
disease."
In February, 2005 a new study based upon results from
Washington State's first year of mandatory testing of farm
workers has found that one in five of
those workers who either mix or spray
pesticides and/or herbicides "experienced significant health affects." Of the
580 workers tested, 20.6% experienced
at least a 205 drop in the enzyme cholinesterase. The enzyme is reportedly
"vital to the body's nervous system." Some 4.4% of the
workers experienced at least a 30% drop
in the enzyme level. The study was prepared by three farm
worker advocacy groups. Two of the more
commonly used pesticides that affected the workers were azinphos methyl also called
Guthion and chlorpyrifos which is sold under various names. According to the
Environmental Protection Agency,
80% of all the orchards in the Northwest United States are treated with both of
these chemicals.
In
February, 2005 West Virginia residents sought class action certification in a
suit against Solutia Inc. alleging exposure to
toxic
chemicals which emanated from a
facility that manufactured Agent Orange, which was a blend of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T
and picloram.
Banned compound chemical pesticides - aldrin, benzene
hexachloride, binapacryl, 2,3,4,5-bis (2-butylene) tetrahydro-2-furaldehyde,
bromoxynil butyrate, cadmium compounds, calcium arsenate, captafol, carbon
tetrachloride, chloranil, chlordane, chlordecone (kepone), chlordimeform,
chlorobenzilate, chloromethoxypropylmercuric acetate, copper arsenate,
1,2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane , dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, dinoseb and
salts, Di(phenylmercury)dodecenylsuccinate, 2-methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol, 1,2-
dibromoethane ethylene dibromide, ethylene dichloride, endrin, ethyl
p-nitrophenyl thionobenzenephosphonate, ethyl hexyleneglycol, fluoroacetamide,
hexachlorobenzene, lead arsenate, leptophos ,
mercury compounds(mercurous chloride
and mercuric chloride), methamidophos, methyl parathion, mevinphos, mirex,
monocrotophos, nitrofen, octamethylpyrophosphoramide, parathion (ethyl),
pentachlorophenol, phenylmercury acetate, phenylmercuric oleate, phosphamidon,
potassium 2,4,5-trichlorophenate (2,4,5-TCP), pyriminil, safrole, silvex,
sodium arsenite, dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane, terpene polychlorinates,
thallium sulfate, toxaphene (chlorinated camphene),
2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), vinyl chloride
DCA or 1,2-dichloroethane Bill
Doucette found 1,2-dichloroethane (DCA), a toxic chlorinated solvent, in
gingerbread man Christmas ornaments made in China in 2008 at Hill Air Force
Base, an aircraft-maintenance facility north of Salt Lake City. Each gram of
gingerbread man polyresin contained 2.3 milligrams of 1,2-dichloroethane and
the emission rate of the toxic chlorinated solvent fumes remains dangerously
elevated for nearly a year.
PCB or polychlorinated
biphenylsUnder specific conditions polychlorinated biphenyls
oxidize into dioxins and dibenzofurans. The
commercial production of PCBs was taken over in 1929 by Monsanto from Swann
Chemical Company. Monsanto, marketed PCBs under the trade name Aroclor from
1930 to 1977. PCB mixtures have been used for a variety of applications,
including dielectric fluids for capacitors and transformers, heat transfer
fluids, hydraulic fluids, lubricating and cutting oils, and as additives in
pesticides, paints, carbonless copy paper, adhesives, sealants, plastics,
reactive flame retardants, and as a fixative for microscopy. Polychlorinated
biphenyls were also used in surgical implants. The most commonly observed
health effects in people exposed to large amounts of PCBs are skin conditions
such as chloracne and rashes, but these were known to be symptoms of systemic
poisoning dating back to the 1920s. Through partial oxidation polychlorinated
biphenyls create dioxins and
furans.
Polychlorinated biphenyls alter estrogen
levels in the body. In the womb, males can be
feminized or the baby may be intersex,
neither a male nor a female or both sets of reproductive organs may develop. Biological
magnification of PCBs has also led to polar bears and whales that have both
male and female sex organs and males that cannot reproduce. This effect is also known as
endocrine disruption.
In August, 2001, federal
and state regulators fined waste disposal and recycling firm Philip Services
$1,000,000 for environmental violations at four Washington State locations. The
facilities accept hazardous
substances for disposal and/or recycling
including PCBs, solvents, acids, cyanide and petroleum
products. The company has already been deemed a responsible party for
ground water contamination that has migrated from their
Georgetown, Washington facility onto adjacent properties and has been fined in
1995 ($160,000) and 1998 ($25,000) for previous environmental violations.
In August, 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency
endorsed the Clinton Administration's plan to remove PCB
contaminated sediment from a 40 mile stretch
of the Hudson River north of Albany. The
cleanup is expected to cost General
Electric, whose facilities dumped some 1.3 million pounds of PCBs into the
river up until 1977, about $460 million.
General Electric has spent hundreds of
millions fighting the Environmental
Protection Agency's dredging plan.
By April 2003 Alabama jurors had
awarded $6 million in property damages in the Anniston, Alabama PCB
contamination class action to 21 plaintiffs.
There are some 900 additional plaintiffs in the class seeking property damages
and 3,500 seeking damages for illnesses allegedly caused by
exposure to PCBs. Another class action
has been filed by some 15,000 additional plaintiffs. Monsanto made PCBs at the
Anniston facility from 1935 to 1971.
In October 2003 paper manufacturer
Glatfelter agreed to pay $25 million towards the dredging of PCB
contaminated sediment in Wisconsin's
Fox River and Green Bay.
In August,
2004 Aluminum company Alcoa, Inc. agreed study remediation options for
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) contamination in New York's
Grasse River.
In November, 2004
residents filed a toxic tort lawsuit
against National Electric Coil plant in Dayhoit, Kentucky caused their
illnesses. Substances released allegedly
included PCBs, dioxins, vinyl chloride,
trichloroethylene and heavy metals. The
plaintiff's also allege that the company misled residents regarding the health
risks once the contamination was discovered.
The facility was bought by Cooper Industries from National Electric Coil in
1985 and was closed in 1987.
By February, 2005 seven paper companies
that dumped PCBs into the Fox River,
Wisconsin over a 20 year period ending in the 1970s had paid $130 million for
cleanup.
In October, 2005 General
Electric agreed to spend $215M - $265M in 1st phase of PCB cleanup of the
Hudson River, New York. Under the agreement,
the company will pay $100 million to $150 million to clean up some 10% of the
2.65 million cubic yards of PCB contaminated
sediment.
In January, 2006 capacitor manufacturer Schlumberger
Technology Corp. has agreed to pay the federal government $20 million to settle
its liability for natural resource damages to Lake
Hartwell which straddles the border between South Carolina and Georgia. A
company facility which operated from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s discharged
PCBs into Twelve Mile Creek which feeds then lake..
dioxin or polychlorinated
dibenzodioxinsThe forests and jungles in large parts of southern
Vietnam have been devastated and denuded. They may never grow back and if they
do, it will take 50 to 200 years to regenerate. Animals that inhabited the
forests and jungles have become extinct. The rivers and underground water have
been contaminated. Erosion and desertification has changed the environment,
contributing to the warming of the planet and dislocation of crop and animal
life.
Many children are born without brains, with deformed limbs and
multiple mutations. Only 14 parts per trillion (PPT) of
dioxin in breast milk can cause severe
deformities in fetuses and even death. Up to 1450 PPT are found in breast milk
in Vietnam.
The federal government and the chemical companies knew that
Agent Orange, when produced rapidly at high temperatures, would contain large
quantities of dioxin. Nevertheless, the
chemical companies continued to produce it in this manner. The federal
government and the chemical companies also knew that the Bionetics Study,
commissioned by the government in 1963, showed that even low levels of
dioxin produced significant deformities in
unborn offspring of laboratory animals. But they suppressed that study and
continued to spray Vietnam with Agent Orange. It wasn't until the study was
leaked in 1969 that the spraying of Agent Orange was discontinued.
"When we
initiated the herbicide program in the 1960s we were well aware of the
potential for damage due to dioxin contamination in the herbicide. We were even
aware that the military formulation had a higher dioxin concentration than the
civilian version, due to the lower cost and the speed of manufacture. However,
because the material was to be used on the enemy, none of us were overly
concerned." - Air Force scientist James Clary
When the Vietnamese
victims of Agent Orange sued the chemical companies in federal court, U.S.
District Judge Jack Weinstein dismissed the lawsuit, concluding that Agent
Orange did not constitute a poison weapon.
U.S. soldiers who served in
Vietnam sued the chemical companies, including Dow and Monsanto, that
manufactured and sold Agent Orange to the government, the case settled out of
court for $180 million. Later the U.S. veterans won a legislative victory for
compensation for exposure to Agent Orange. They receive $1.52 billion per year
in benefits.
George Mizo served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam in 1967.
George Mizo slept on contaminated ground and consumed food and drink that were
also contaminated. George Mizo refused to serve after he was wounded for the
third time; he was court-martialed and sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison and a
dishonorable discharge. George Mizo died from conditions related to his
exposure to Agent Orange.
Dioxin are
absorbed primarily through dietary intake of fat, as this is where they
accumulate in animals and humans. In humans, the highly chlorinated
dioxins are stored in fatty tissues and are
neither readily metabolized nor excreted. The estimated elimination half-life
for highly chlorinated dioxins (4-8 chlorine
atoms) in humans ranges from 7.8 to 132 years.
Exposure to high levels
of dioxins in humans causes a severe form of
persistent acne, known as chloracne. A case-control study has shown an elevated
risk of sarcoma (a type of cancer) associated with low-level exposure (4.2
fg/m3) to dioxins from incineration plants.
High levels of exposures to dioxins have
been shown by epidemiological studies to lead to an increased risk of tumours
at all sites. Other effects in humans may include: developmental abnormalities
in the enamel of children's teeth; central and peripheral nervous system
pathology; thyroid disorders; damage to the immune systems; endometriosis;
diabetes. Recent studies have shown that exposure to
dioxins changes the ratio of male to female
births among a population such that more females are born than males.
Dioxins accumulate in food chains in a
fashion similar to other chlorinated compounds (bioaccumulation).
leadIn 2002, there
were nearly 4,000 new cases of lead poisoning identified among New York City
children under age six. In addition there were over 500 lead poisoning cases
identified in children ages 6 to 17.
In August, 2002 California health
officials estimate that 15% of the states' children diagnosed with elevated
lead levels between May 2001 and January 2002 were exposed to lead from candy,
pottery and folk medicines from Mexico.
February 10, 2004 the D.C. Water
and Sewer Authority (WASA) reportedly became
aware of the lead levels in 2002,
but did not notify customers until November 2003. Lead supply pipes feed many
older single family homes of which over 150 homes had lead levels of over 300
ppb. The federal safety level is 15 ppb.
February 16, 2004 - Researchers
at Columbia University have found that "babies exposed to high levels of lead
in the womb are more than twice as likely to develop schizophrenia in
adulthood." This is reportedly the first time an environmental toxin has been
linked to a later risk of schizophrenia.
October, 2004
Environmental Protection Agency
data analyzed by the Washington Post identified 274 utilities serving some 11.5
million people who reported unsafe lead in drinking
water since 2000. The
analysis also showed that municipalities
across the nation, Boston, Philadelphia, Lansing, New York and Washington D.C.,
are masking the true levels of lead in drinking water.
In December, 2004 a new study by
researchers at Harvard Medical School has found a link to lead
exposure and the development of
cataracts in men over 60. The study found that men who had the highest lead
levels were 2.7 times more likely to have cataracts than those with the lowest
levels.
In January, 2005 one in five children tested in Cleveland, Ohio
is lead poisoned and in some neighborhoods 50% of the children suffer from lead
poisoning.
On March 3, 2005 a New Jersey company, Hirschberg Schultz
& Co. Inc., recalled 2.8 million metal charms sold in Arts & Craft
stores after a 6 year old California girl was lead poisoned after putting one
in her mouth. The charms, sold as decorations for greeting cards and gift bags
as well as for necklaces and bracelets, were manufactured in China.
In
June, 2005 the State of North Carolina recorded its first case of lead
poisoning caused by lead in household drinking water. The source of the lead is
believed to be household plumbing.
In July, 2005 Wisconsin Supreme Court found that "...the record is
replete with evidence that shows the pigment manufacturers actually magnified
the risk [of lead poisoning] through their aggressive promotion of white lead
carbonate, even despite the awareness of the
toxicity of lead." Defendants in this
case include: American Cyanamid Co., Atlantic Richfield Co., ConAgra Grocery
Products Co., E.I. DuPont De Nemours and Co., NL Industries Inc., SCM
Chemicals, Inc. and Sherwin-Williams Co.
In July, 2005 Rhode Island
estimates that over 36,000 children in the state have lead poisoning.
In September, 2005 the Third Circuit United States Court of Appeals
ruled that successor companies can be held liable for cleanup costs caused by
polluting activities of acquired companies. The court found United States
Battery Corp. liable for lead contaminated
soil at five dumpsites in Pennsylvania
where companies acquired by the firm dumped wastes from the 1930s through 1966.
In February 3, 2006 California's Attorney General joined environmental
groups in a lawsuit against retailers and distributors of children's jewelry
after discoveries that the jewelry contained lead levels as high as 950,000
parts per million. Defendants settled the lawsuit by agreeing to pay $1.87
million. The settlement also called for the companies to stop selling jewelry
with high lead content no later than 3/1/08. The settlement sets strict
standards for the lead level in children's' jewelry. Metal components and
coatings will be limited to 600 parts of lead per million. Plastic components
will be limited to 200 parts of lead per million.
"A new study in women
65 and older indicates that the more lead circulating in the blood of golden
girls, the higher the likelihood these women will die prematurely." - Janet
Raloff 04/06/09
asbestosIn 1898
the Chief Inspector of Factories of the United Kingdom reported to Parliament
in his Annual Report about the "evil effects of asbestos dust". He reported the
"sharp, glass like nature of the particles" when allowed to remain in the air
in any quantity, "have been found to be injurious.
In 1918 a
American insurance company produced a study
showing premature deaths in the asbestos industry in
America.
Members of the
nonoccupationally exposed population have tens of thousands to hundreds of
thousands of asbestos fibers in each gram of dry lung tissue, which
translates into millions of fibers
and tens of thousands of asbestos bodies in every person's lungs. Asbestos
causes asbestosis, mesothelioma and lung cancer the incidence of which is
increased by tobacco smoking.
In
August, 2001, the RAND Institute for Civil Justice published its new asbestos
litigation study entitled "Asbestos Litigation in the United States: A New
Look at an Old Issue."
- Over 500,000 claimants have filed suit to
date;
- At least 5 firms have had 300,000 - 500,000 claims each;
- The
number of mesothelioma claims began to increase in the mid-1990s;
- United
States Insurers have to date paid $21.6 billion for asbestos personal injury
claims;
- 27 million people in the United States were exposed to asbestos
occupationally from 1940 - 1979;
In 1999, federal regulators found some
15,000 tons of asbestos contaminated
soil remained at a Libby, Montana site
which processed vermiculite ore beginning in 1948. A health study of residents
showed residents have a much higher incidence of pleural thickening and lung
scarring from asbestos exposure than
the general public. Eighteen percent of the nearly 5600 adults examined had
pleural thickening or lung scarring. The national average for people not
exposed to asbestos is between 0.2% to 2.3%. Of the 328 former mine employees
tested, 159, or 48% showed lung scarring. Many of the town's women who were
diagnosed with these asbestos-related ailments reportedly came into contact
with asbestos fibers while washing their husband's work clothes.
In February, 2005 the United
States Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency announced
that a federal grand jury in the District of Montana has indicted W.R. Grace
and seven current and former Grace executives for knowingly endangering
residents of Libby, Montana, and concealing information about the health
affects of its asbestos mining operations. According to the indictment, W.R.
Grace and its executives, as far back as the 1970's, attempted to hide the fact
that toxic asbestos was present in
vermiculite products. The government claims the company’s own medical
studies of its miners created a paper trail that will prove the charges of wire
fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy and violations of the Clean Air Act.
“Our major problem is death from respiratory cancer.”- note
by W.R. Grace executive Henry A. Eschenbach in 1982
In 2009 in the Libby,
Montana case the defendants were acquitted. This is absolutely no surprise when
you understand that the Justice Department operating under the George W. Bush
administration's belief that polluters were entitled to pollute and under Dick
Cheney's thumb deliberately bungled the case.(After all the war in Iraq was
fought partly so Halliburton could
become solvent after Dick Cheney failed to undertake due diligence when
purchasing Dresser Industries for Halliburton.)
In September, 2005
economic consulting firm, Bates White, completed a review of the "Fairness in
Asbestos Injury Resolution Act (FAIR) and found that the planned $140 billion
trust fund which would be set up to pay asbestos personal injury claims would
be insolvent within three years. The firm estimates the range of claim payouts
under the plan would generate between $300 billion and $695 billion of claims.
(see Halliburton)
fetuses
In
February, 2005 researchers at Columbia University concluded that in utero
exposure to air pollutants, primarily
from auto exhaust, can cause chromosomal damage associated with an increased
risk of cancer.
A July, 2005 study funded by the citizens' action group
Environmental Working Group concludes that fetuses are exposed to
hundreds of toxic
chemicals in utero. The test
examined the cord blood of ten
random newborns. The samples were provided by the American Red Cross.
Blood samples from the cords
contained at least 287 chemicals.
Each sample contained between 159 and 243
chemicals including 180 that can
cause cancer in
humans and animals, 217 that are
known to damage the nervous system and
brain, and 208 that can cause birth defects in animals. The chemicals found in the chord
blood included
mercury, brominated flame
retardants, pesticides and perfluoronated chemicals used in products such as
Scotchguard and Teflon. The study was peer reviewed by eight physicians and a
toxicologist.
It is hard to believe but there are
products that are banned in
China that the federal government allows
to be sold in America.
"The
American public is indebted to more
progressive governments that ban
toxic substances in widely used
products. We are at the
mercy of business interests
that seek only bottom-line profits. Certainly
we cannot rely on our Congress to look out for our well-being. Businesses that
are required to adjust standards to sell abroad are finding it dimcult to make
two different products - one
for the American
market, which permits the poisoning of
citizens, and one for the rest
of the Earth, where
citizens are protected by
governments that are mindful of
their safety. If it were not for the rest of the Earth, we would indeed be hopeless and helpless."
- Joan Morrison
See Ian
Player
See John Muir
See
Edward Abbey
See Charles
Darwin
See Henry David Thoreau
See
John Wesley Powell
See Marcus Aurelius V
See Thomas Aquinas
See Rene
Descartes
See David Hume
See
John Stuart Mills
See Ralph Waldo Emerson
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