Monsanto Hid Decades of Pollution...

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Please forward this article...hats off to the Post for

publicizing these CONFIDENTIAL documents. The last

time reporters tried to inform the public about

Monsanto's ugly business practices, they were fired.

 

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Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution - Washington Post

On the west side of Anniston, the poor side of

Anniston, the people ate dirt. They called it " Alabama

clay " and cooked it for extra flavor. They also grew

berries in their gardens, raised hogs in their back

yards, caught bass in the murky streams where their

children swam and played and were baptized. They

didn't know their dirt and yards and bass and kids --

along with the acrid air they breathed -- were all

contaminated with chemicals. They didn't know they

lived in one of the most polluted patches of America.

Now they know. They also know that for nearly 40

years, while producing the now-banned industrial

coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto

Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west

Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs

into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages

of Monsanto documents -- many emblazoned with warnings

such as " CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy " -- show that

for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did

and what it knew.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46648-2001Dec31.html

 

 

 

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