David Steinman
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 After all, it was Dow that manufactured such toxic compounds as agent orange, the birth defect-causing defoliant used during the Vietnam War. Furthermore, the active ingredients in agent orange, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, are also known to be cancer causing; in fact, although 2,4,5-T was banned from further use in the United States in the early 1980s, the herbicide 2,4-D continues to be widely used both in commercial agriculture and on lawns. It is widely known to cause human cancer, according to a host of epidemiological studies. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Herbicides
Exposure to herbicides during the Vietnam War, especially Monsanto's defoliant agent orange (dioxin), may be associated with the development of diabetes. agent orange was sprayed on trees to reduce cover for North Vietnamese soldiers. About 2.6 million people served in Southeast Asia between 1962 and 1975. About 8% to 11% now have diabetes. Since diabetes increases with age, the percentage will undoubtedly rise. In 1991 the U.S. Congress passed the agent orange Act, which established a system for evaluating the effects on its soldiers. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Following its liberal application to the fields and forests of Vietnam, the herbicide came to be better known as agent orange, originally a military code name matching the color band around the fifty-five-gallon drums in which it was shipped for application in Vietnam.64 The letter reporting the New Jersey outbreak of chloracne was published in the 6 July 1964 issue of JAMA. A month and a day later, the U.S. Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the Vietnam War's escalation. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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| Spina bifida in the children of veterans is also considered grounds for compensation from the agent orange Act. agent orange is not only found in tissues of soldiers from the Vietnam war, but, according to an EPA study in 1982, it is also found in the tissue of 76% of the general American public.25
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Insulin is one type of pharmacological agent used in NIDDM. |
| Congress passed the agent orange Act, which established a system for evaluating the effects on its soldiers. About 8,500 Vietnam veterans have been financially compensated, many for diabetes-related health damages under this Act.
Other diseases designated as associated with herbicides include chloracne (a skin condition), soft tissue sarcoma, Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma, respiratory cancers, prostate cancer, and Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Spina bifida in the children of veterans is also considered grounds for compensation from the agent orange Act. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is two chemical compositions away from agent orange. So, it does the same thing agent orange does when you spray it on the plants. It dries up the root system of the plants and the plants die. When you put it in rubber, it stops the moisture molecules from breaking down, so the rubber is stabilized. Now, it doesn't know the difference between a moisture prohibitive in the food or a moisture prohibitive in the digestive tract.
Mike: So, you're dehydrating your dog.
Newman: Right. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 The earliest-known effort by Monsanto to cover up dioxin contamination of its products involved the herbicide used in Vietnam, agent orange. Available internal Monsanto correspondence in the 1960s shows a knowledge of this contamination and the fact that the dioxin contaminant was responsible for kidney and liver damage, as well as the skin condition chloracne.
Early internal Monsanto documents reveal that samples of agent orange and other chlorinated herbicides and chlorophenols submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the 1970s were 'doctored'. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When tap water meets toothpaste, the triclosan reacts freely with the chlorine in the tap water to become chloroform (a chlorinated aromatic) and is similar to the dioxins found in the compound agent orange. It's a chemical reaction occurring right in your mouth while you brush your teeth. And don't think you are safe once you rinse it all out of your mouth: research shows that it can remain in your mouth after brushing for up to 12 hours, and can be easily absorbed into the tongue and through mucus into the body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Antibacterial soaps, for example, are based on a nerve-killing chemical closely related to agent orange. Fluoride-enriched water products use a chemical form of fluoride considered a toxic waste from the fertilizer processing industry, and the widespread use of genetically modified corn in the food supply exposes virtually the entire population to alarming levels of chemical pesticides unleashed during digestion.
My CounterThink cartoon, the Food Terrorists, explains this in more detail. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Dow Chemical Company pays Professor Kligman $10,000 to learn how dioxin -- a highly toxic, carcinogenic component of agent orange -- and other herbicides affect human skin because workers at the chemical plant have been developing an acne-like condition called Chloracne and the company would like to know whether the chemicals they are handling are to blame. As part of the study, Professor Kligman applies roughly the amount of dioxin Dow employees are exposed to on the skin 60 prisoners, and is disappointed when the prisoners show no symptoms of Chloracne. |
Ann N. Martin
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 The herbicide, 2,4-D is found in one-third of all pesticides and is a component of agent orange. Homeowners and farmers use this herbicide for weed control because it is cheaper and more effective than other weed killers. Doctors urge people using this herbicide to wear masks, boots, and gloves for protection.
At the same time humans are taking precautions around this herbicide, cats and dogs can walk across the lawn sprayed with this chemical, unprotected. |
David Steinman
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| Furthermore, the active ingredients in agent orange, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, are also known to be cancer causing; in fact, although 2,4,5-T was banned from further use in the United States in the early 1980s, the herbicide 2,4-D continues to be widely used both in commercial agriculture and on lawns. It is widely known to cause human cancer, according to a host of epidemiological studies. I reported on the hearings held in Oregon in the late 1970s in which the EPA tried to ban 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D from further use. |
| The company is responsible for hazardous pesticides (such as 2,4-D, Dursban, Telone, and DBCP), as well as by-products such as dioxin, ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, and agent orange and napalm used during the Vietnam War. In 1999, Dow acquired Union Carbide, whose pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, released methyl isocyanate and other chemicals in 1984, causing one of the worst industrial disasters in history. Recently Dow has positioned itself as one of five corporations dominating the market for genetically engineered seeds.20 How could any company escape a past like that? |
Gabriel Cousens
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 For example, Vietnam veterans exposed to endocrine disruptors such as agent orange (a potent mixture of several hormone-disrupting pesticides such as dioxins) have a higher incidence of diabetes, as well as abnormal glucose and insulin levels.101 Women are even more strongly affected. A follow-up study on the dioxin accident in Seveso, Italy, examined blood from 31,000 people within months of the accident and followed the exposed people for more than twenty years. They found an increased incidence of diabetes, but only in females. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It turns out that this active ingredient is chemically similar to agent orange. That's right, this was the Weapon of Mass Destruction used in Vietnam. And while it's not accurate to say that there's agent orange in your antimicrobial soap, there is indeed a chemical compound that's similar in its function, purpose, and molecular structure. Is this something that you want to be coating your dishes with? How insane is that?
Yet it's precisely what millions of Americans are doing each and every day that they use these products. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I mean chemicals that are molecularly similar to agent orange -- chemicals that cause brain cancer and impair the ability of your brain and nervous system to function adequately. I mean chemicals that have to be detoxified by your liver, which means that if you touch these chemicals -- if you even get them on your skin -- your liver has to do all the hard work to render them harmless. So, not only are you doing nothing to protect yourself against all those dangerous bacteria, you are actually harming your health by exposing yourself to these dangerous toxic chemicals. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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Falsification and manipulation by Monsanto since the 1960s of data on dioxin and its contamination of products, including the herbicide agent orange, designed to block occupational exposure claims and tightening of federal regulations. This evidence was detailed in 1990 by Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Criminal Investigation which charged Monsanto with a "long pattern of fraud" and with reporting "false information" to the Agency.
Fraudulent claims by Monsanto since 1985 that genetically engineered (rBGH) milk is indistinguishable from natural milk. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So, it does the same thing agent orange does when you spray it on the plants. It dries up the root system of the plants and the plants die. When you put it in rubber, it stops the moisture molecules from breaking down, so the rubber is stabilized. Now, it doesn't know the difference between a moisture prohibitive in the food or a moisture prohibitive in the digestive tract.
Mike: So, you're dehydrating your dog.
Newman: Right. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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| Others members of the population, such as Vietnam War veterans and some chemical plant workers, have accumulated additional dioxins because of their exposure to agent orange or other dioxin-contaminated chemicals in the workplace.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has studied the effect of abnormal levels of dioxin on the endocrine system, noting several serious disorders in animal and human studies.
Dioxin is not the only chemical that disrupts endocrine function. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is 300 times more toxic than agent orange. Now, why would you want to bring products that have even the smallest amount of dioxin residue into your home? It just doesn't make sense to me.
Mike: Right.
Hollender: What we know about things like cancer is there usually is no one chemical exposure that causes cancer. It's the multiplying effect of maybe 10 different exposures to different types of toxins. What we're saying is to reduce that exposure where you can. Be safe. We can't afford to take these kinds of chances, especially with our children. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 You may have heard of some:
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• Aminotriazole (herbicide used on cranberry crops, causing the "cranberry scare'" of 1959)
• DDT (widely known after Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring)
• Nitrites (a meat preservative and color and flavor enhancer used in hot dogs and bacon)
• Red Dye Number 2
• Artificial sweeteners (including cyclamates and saccharin)
• Dioxin (a contaminant of industrial processes and of agent orange, a defoliant used during the Vietnam War)
• Anatoxin (a fungal toxin found on moldy peanuts and corn)
I know these unsavory chemicals quite well. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Maybe someone will start selling carpet that is laced with agent orange or other chemicals that kill bacteria. That'll be exciting. That way when you roll around on your carpet with your children or your pets, you will be absorbing some of that right into your skin just as if you were using antibacterial soap.
Maybe we'll have antibacterial clothes that have been soaked in that toxic chemical, and the marketers will claim your clothes won't stink, even if you do. How healthy is that going to be? Let's just wear antibacterial chemicals and then sweat and absorb all that right through our skin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And while it's not accurate to say that there's agent orange in your antimicrobial soap, there is indeed a chemical compound that's similar in its function, purpose, and molecular structure. Is this something that you want to be coating your dishes with? How insane is that?
Yet it's precisely what millions of Americans are doing each and every day that they use these products. They are literally placing a thin film of nerve agent chemicals on their dishes, and then drinking and eating from those dishes. Here, Johnny, be sure to clean up your plate! |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| Early internal Monsanto documents reveal that samples of agent orange and other chlorinated herbicides and chlorophenols submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the 1970s were 'doctored'. In other words, highly contaminated samples were not submitted to the government. These analyses were subsequently adopted by EPA in a 1980 publication and were used without any data from other sources.
Fraudulent Dioxin Health Studies
The following are a few key instances where obvious fraud was utilized in the conduct of Monsanto's epidemiological studies:
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| The Monsanto studies in question also have been a key basis for denying compensation to Vietnam Veterans exposed to agent orange and their children suffering birth defects from such parental exposures.
Dioxin Contamination of Monsanto Products
Monsanto covered up the dioxin contamination of a wide range of its products. Monsanto either failed to report contamination, substituted false information purporting to show no contamination, or submitted samples to the government for analysis which had been specially prepared so that dioxin contamination did not exist. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| Dioxin occurred as a trace element in such herbicides as agent orange, which was used to destroy vegetation during the Vietnam War. agent orange has been accused of causing several forms of cancer and birth defects, but studies of the military personnel exposed to it have been logistically impossible to perform (see p. 144). The information on agent orange that was available and reviewed was found to be inconclusive. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| This chemical has since received widespread attention, especially because it was part of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, or agent orange, then being used to defoliate forests in the Vietnam War.
After leaving MIT and taking a faculty position at Virginia Tech, I began coordinating technical assistance for a nationwide project in the Philippines working with malnourished children. Part of the project became an investigation of the unusually high prevalence of liver cancer, usually an adult disease, in Filipino children. |
H.J. Roberts, M.D.
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 This case represented another round in the conflict between Vietnam veterans and the United States Government over alleged debilitating diseases resulting from exposure to agent orange. The Court stated:
The VA wrongfully required that the scientific evidence demonstrated a "cause and effect" relationship between agent orange exposure and claimed diseases, instead of using the less demanding standard that there be a "statistical association" between agent orange exposure and claimed diseases ... |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
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 These specific chemicals are similar to the toxic ingredients such as dioxin in the infamous agent orange used to defoliate Vietnam. These appear to have caused innumerable health problems, typical of pesticide poisoning and chemical sensitivities, not only in the Vietnamese, but also in our Vietnam veterans, their wives and possibly even their offspring.
An offshoot called PCP, or pentachlorophenol, is used as an outdoor wood or patio preservative. |
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