Devra Davis
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 DuPont, one of the principal funders of Kehoe's Kettering laboratories, would in due course become one of the largest chemical companies in the world.
Built during World War I, DuPont's Chambers Works in Deep-water, New Jersey, produced some of the most profitable and toxic compounds in the world: synthetic dyes like beta-Naphthylamine and benzidine, and tetraethyl lead. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why isn't the entire cancer industry going after chemical companies and actively trying to prevent cancer rather than simply claiming to be searching for a cure that will never be found anyway?
The answer to all these questions is the same: Because the U.S. government acts in collusion with Big Business to exploit U.S. consumers, stripping them of their health, their money and their future. The government has become, in essence, the enforcement branch of corporate America. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If that last sentence surprises you, it should: not one in a hundred American consumers is aware that it is perfectly legal for U.S. chemical companies to export dangerous chemical pesticides (like DDT) that have been banned for use on crops in the United States. Those pesticides are sold to countries with lower environmental and health standards which turn around and use them on crops that are exported right back to the USA. So U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Click here to read more about the ACS and its financial ties to chemical companies, pharmaceutical companies and radiology equipment manufacturers.
The cancer industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, and I've written extensively about the criminal organizations that protect and promote the industry. Just about everything the public is told about cancer by these cancer institutions is a lie. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Remember: This natural soap isn't going to foam up like phoney cleaning products made by chemical companies, and it sure doesn't smell like fragrance chemicals. So don't expect it to look or smell like the products you might have been using. However, soap nuts get things really clean. The soap works so well that it's actually being studied right now as a way to decontaminate soils from exposure to toxic chemicals. How's that for a natural solution? Nature's soap can save the planet from man's soap. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And it all remains perfectly legal. Our chemical companies even manufacture and export pesticide chemicals that have been banned in the United States. Poor agricultural nations openly use those deadly pesticides on their crops, then ship the produce back to the U.S. where consumers buy it at grocery stores. It's all perfectly legal and, in fact, encouraged by U.S. political leaders.
Resistance is futile
It's actually more than legal: It's required! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You'll learn why 29 states are suing drug companies for fraud, how the FDA ordered the burning of recipe books to protect the profits of chemical companies, why the FDA conducted armed raids on vitamin companies, health food stores and even a church, and how the mainstream media operates as a willing co-conspirator by promoting dangerous drugs while accepting hundreds of millions of dollars in Big Pharma ad money every year. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Or they can make an authentically valuable social contribution by refusing to buy carcinogens and hormone-disrupting chemicals from the chemical companies." Now that would be a truly powerful Pink Promise.
Because We're Worth It Too!
Teenagers have a certain way of just cutting to the chase. "It's disgusting that women can get rid of our toxins by passing them on to our babies," said Jessica Assaf. Before she has that experience though, Jessica plans to go to college, become a pediatric oncologist and pressure the cosmetics industry to clean up its products. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 While chemical companies have to divulge information if their chemicals have been found to be carcinogenic in lab testing, no such testing and reporting are required on whether chemicals act as autogens and damage the human immune system. While debates brew between the chemical industry, which argues that these exposures are safe for humans, and the growing number of scientists investigating their damaging effects, recent published studies on PBDEs have not been reassuring. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you don't like big, ugly chemical companies like DuPont, then stop buying Teflon! If you want to support organic farmers, buy organic! Vote with your dollars and you'll support those people and those organizations you want to see more of in 2008 and beyond.
These are the kind of ingredients that can bring you personal success in 2008 and beyond. Remember, if you want different results in 2008, you need to engage in different actions.
Your daily habits determine your year-end results. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Yogi Berra
Interpretation (by Brent Hoadley): Pharmaceuticals, chemical companies and corporations in general are being allowed to destroy the future that we expected.
You the jurors now need to decide upon the preponderance of evidence presented.
1. What role did each "criminal" play in the demise of the victim(s) of diabetes (chronic disease sufferers)?
2. What role are you willing to accept in remedying the situation? Will bringing a verdict of guilty suffice? Or do you feel a need to participate in the remedy in a more active manner? |
Devra Davis
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| Major chemical companies bought up and moved the contaminated Louisiana delta towns of Mossville and Reveilletown. These companies did this without admitting any responsibility for the pollution that had rendered these places uninhabitable. They then pointed to the absence of information on health harms in these areas as proof that no such damage occurred. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Twenty-five years ago I coauthored, with David Weir, the book Circle of Poison,11 which exposed how American chemical companies were exporting banned pesticides that they were forbidden to sell to Americans. Citizens of developing countries were victims of America's own double standard: they were the market for America's forbidden products because their governments' environmental standards were far weaker than those in the United States. I never imagined that a quarter century later the effect of the U.S. |
Devra Davis
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| More than twenty years later, with Deceit and Denial, their detailed historv of the rank and sordid history of vinyl chloride, Markovitz and Rosner got the attention of twenty of the biggest chemical companies in the world—including Dow, Monsanto, B.F. Goodrich and Union Carbide. The chapter of their book that especially rattled these companies was called "Evidence of an Illegal Conspiracy by Industry. |
| As to how closely OSHA today works with industry, a recent agreement between the agency and the American Chemistry Council, a trade association consisting of large chemical companies, makes it quite clear. OSHA and the ACC are working together to:
Promote membership in each other's program to potential companies and program auditors. |
| There was a clause in the agreement they had to sign to get paid that no matter what pollution, no matter what illness or any other adverse effect ever came up in the future, from no matter what chemical, no matter what source of what chemical, they were no longer going to be allowed to sue the chemical companies if they got sick later on."
I haven't been back to the area since the big hurricanes hit in 2005—first Katrina broke the backs of New Orleans' levees and swamped other coastal lowlands, then Rita sucker punched what was left less than a month later. |
David Steinman
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 Legislation that is seemingly perennially before Congress, sponsored by the governor, John Corzine (when he was the Democratic senator from New Jersey), would direct chemical companies to look at using the least-toxic substances to get the job done. |
Devra Davis
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| His files include reports in German from German chemical companies with which he was apparently working, but nothing written by him in that language.
There is a bond among scientists that typically cuts across nation and culture. A typewritten report from the Field Investigations Unit—the intelligence group under which Kehoe went to Germany—written in the third person and signed in his strong, clear handwriting tells us that on July 21, 1945, Kehoe took custody of the distinguished sixty-eight-year-old Ferdinand Flury, one of Germany's leading toxicologists, whose release he secured afterward. |
Melody Petersen
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 The industry then was largely a group of chemical companies manufacturing millions of bottles of pills that did little to treat real disease. The nation's academic pharmacologists held these pill peddlers in such low esteem that they refused to allow any industrial scientist to become a member of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, which had been founded by Dr. John Jacob Abel. Dr. Abel operated a laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and is widely regarded as the father of American pharmacology. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 But as discussed, food manufacturers and the chemical companies have decided to add thousands of synthetic chemicals to our food and beverages in the form of preservatives, dyes, flavorings, flavor enhancers, stabilizers and artificial sweeteners. You truly do not know what you are eating.
Let's take a closer look at artificial sweeteners. They are of special interest to me based on the personal experience I've had with them over the years. Artificial sweeteners are designed to reduce the caloric content in foods. The market is flooded with these products. |
Mark Schapiro
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| The government, Zhang said, would assist chemical companies in developing their "risk controlling ability."16 European consultants would also begin working with Chinese industry and government officials, aiding with the data collection and toxicity testing they would need in order to ensure continued access to European markets. By the end of 2008, the Chinese are expected to submit toxicity data reports for the high-volume chemicals —those sold in quantities of more than one hundred tons a year—it exports to Europe. |
| TSCA rewards ignorance," Guth said. "The chemical companies give you function and they give you price. What they don't give you is safety or environmental effects. That is a complete black box. The data gaps are massive. So, let's say you want to develop a more effective and safer chemical. There is no information out there to prove that yours is better or safer for human health or the environment. There's no competitive pressure to improve it. . . . The current system impedes the ability of innovations to penetrate the market. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
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 How well is the act of faith, integrity and honesty justified in relation to the safety and scientific data supplied by chemical companies? Surprisingly, we absolutely know the answer. In 1991 -2, the EPA offered amnesty to chemical manufacturers if they would turn in their studies showing their products caused harmful health or environmental effects. Ten thousand were quickly turned in! 5a'b'7
At the present time, the safety data submitted by chemical companies to the EPA for registration of pesticides does not have to be published and access to this data is very limited. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 America. And don't even get me started about cosmetics companies, pet food companies and infant formula manufacturers.
Blame China? Give me a break. How about blaming the corrupt, criminally-minded FDA bureaucrats who have utterly surrendered their duties to profiteering corporations fixated solely on exploiting American consumers for maximum profits?
All this doesn't mean China's foods are any safer. They're not. But U.S. foods, drugs and personal care products are just as toxic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By the way, I don't mean to leave out all those chemical companies manufacturing pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, toxic household cleaners and toxic personal care products. A lot of those skincare companies are really just chemical manufacturers with sexy marketing and lots of women in lab coats selling you products that actually harm your health; that literally contain ingredients that cause cancer and liver disease. People think our economy is booming, but we're all dying of chronic disease. Why is it that 50 percent of our senior citizens in the United States have high blood pressure? |
Michele Simon
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 Why should consumers be able to sue automobile manufacturers, chemical companies, the pharmaceutical industry, etc., but not Big Food? There is nothing inherent about food that makes it any less subject to a system of laws that are designed to protect consumers from wrongdoing by any industry. These laws have evolved over the past century and are firmly entrenched in our legal system. In legalese, it's called civil justice. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Until these bGH tests files were uncovered, it's been difficult to refute misleading assertions by bGH manufacturers, university scientists contracted to these chemical companies, and FDA officials. These interlocking groups claim:
¦ No increase in milk hormone levels.
¦ No adverse reproductive or other toxic health effects in treated cows.
¦ Milk from bGH cows is safe for humans.
In fact, the Monsanto bGH test files reveal the following:
¦ Milk bGH (somatotropin) levels in groups of treated cows appear in concentrations up to 1000 times higher than found in control samples. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Put the chemical companies out of business by refusing to buy their products.
I know this is not a popular view of recycling. But I am not here to be popular, I'm here to get you to think about what's really going on, and to recognize your role in it. I was once a consumer of numerous toxic products, but I recognized the error, adjusted my consumption patterns, and now I practice genuine environmental responsibility (and I still recycle, too). I urge you to do the same. |
Mike Adams
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 In summary, the support of German politics for the global expansion plans of the German pharmaceutical and chemical companies has a 100-year-old tradition.
The U.S. lead prosecutor in the Nuremberg War Criminal Tribunal against the IG Farben anticipated this development when he said, "these IG Farben criminals, not the lunatic Nazi fanatics, are the main war criminals. If the guilt of these criminals is not brought to daylight and if they are not punished, they will represent a much greater threat to the future peace of the world than Hitler if he were still alive. |
Mike Adams
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 Some believe, with good reason, that the FDA has been pressured to avoid approving stevia in order to protect the profits of these chemical companies.
Regardless of politics, as an informed consumer you can use stevia in any way you like. And thankfully, many food manufacturing companies are adding stevia to their products despite the status of the herb held by the FDA. |
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