exerpt on dioxin

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excerpt on dioxin from the mad cowboy newsletter....

 

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*02: New Howard Transcript Excerpt - " Dioxin "

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(The following is a transcript excerpted from one of the 24 fifteen minute

video segments Howard taped at 3ABN studios back in late September, and

mentioned in the above " Holiday Message. " They will start being broadcast

after post-production in January 2003, one a week. This is from " Dioxin " )

 

HOWARD:

 

" ...I will never forget a man by the name of Dr. T. Colin Campbell was

sitting in my office in Washington DC, and he was holding his cheek when he

was talking to me. Well, I asked him, I said, " Dr. Campbell, why do you

hold your cheek? "

 

And he said, " well, I was the individual who did some of the first work on

dioxin before we even knew it was there. " He said, " it ended up killing

the muscles in my face. It's easier for me to talk if I hold my cheek.

 

And then he asked me the question. He said: " Did you use chemicals on

your farm? "

 

And I said, " Well, of course! 2-4-d, 2-4-5-t, ah, endrun, allrun, you name

it, we used it. "

 

And he said, " Well Agent Orange was... 2-4-5-t. "

 

I said, " We used thousands of gallons. "

 

And he said, " was there anybody in your family that died of cancer? "

 

And I said " Yes... I had a brother, 32 years old, that died of Hodgkin's

Disease. "

 

Dr. Campbell, one of the most preeminent researchers on alive on the planet

today, was the first person that told me that, Agent Orange, 2-4-5-t, would

actually cause cancer in humans.

 

And so for me, it became a very personal thing. I started looking into it.

And I started asking myself the question, " should we not, should we not

spend some time and take a look at what we're doing to get rid of our

waste? How many of us think that just because we are burning our waste in

municipal dumps.... do we ever stop and think that dioxin is coming from

burning those organochlorines that it attaches to the dust and travels

thousands of miles, that it comes down on the food that we are eating.

Then the animals that we are eating, the food that they are eating, they

are taking this dioxin in, storing it their fat, and when we eat it, we end

up taking it and storing it in our fat.

 

.....according to Dr. Barry Commoner: " dioxin and dioxin-like substances

represent the most perilous chemical threat to the life, health, and

biological integrity of human beings in the environment. " (end excerpt)

 

(For more information on the broadcasts, see:

http://www.3ABN.org

 

(See: MC Newsletter #5 for topics, MC N #6 for sample teleprompter notes:

Mad_Cowboy/

 

 

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*03: Who is Dr. T. Colin Campbell?

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BACKGROUND: AND INFO ABOUT THE CHINA PROJECT

http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/reports/campbell_china1.html

 

INTERVIEW:

http://www.mcspotlight.org/people/interviews/campbell.html

 

THE GRAND PRIX OF ALL DIET STUDIES:

http://free.freespeech.org/nhn/china.html

 

" Cornell/China study shows animal products aren't needed to improve growth

- China's growth and health are improving on plant-based diet; more

animal-based foods are leading to more chronic diseases, study finds "

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/June97/chinagrowth.ssl.html

 

ERIK MARCUS ON " THE CHINA PROJECT " :

http://www.vegan.com/pages/china.html

 

LETTER TO NY TIMES FROM DR. CAMPBELL:

http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Lnotmilk.htm

 

WEBSITE:

http://www.newcenturynutrition.com/

 

ARTICLE: " Genetic Seeds of Disease: How to Beat the Odds "

http://www.newcenturynutrition.com/public_html/webzine/archives/Genetic_seeds.sh

tml

 

 

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*04: Info: Dioxin

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" DIOXIN IS A SHORTHAND TERM FOR A CLASS OF CHEMICALS called polychlorinated

dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans. These chemicals have

never been intentionally produced on an industrial scale, but are generated

as wastes and byproducts from combustion sources and certain chemical and

industrial processes. Dioxins became widespread in the environment

following World War II as a consequence of rising production and use of

large quantities of chlorine-containing chemicals, which are associated

with dioxin generation. Dioxins are the most highly poisonous synthetic

substances known. Dioxins are widespread in human milk and can cross the

placenta; they are linked to cancer, endometriosis and other diseases; and

they can disrupt immune systems, reproductive systems and diminish

intellectual capacity. "

 

(Excerpted from:

http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/toxics/popsglossary.htm

 

(Check out the FactSheet " Dioxin: From Cradle to Grave " :

http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/media/factsheets/dioxin.pdf

 

(Dioxin Homepage with links and a chart detailing where most people

(non-vegetarians) get their dioxin:

http://www.ejnet.org/dioxin/

 

(UN Environmental Program on " Persistant Organic Pollutants " :

http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/

 

 

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*05: Articles: Dioxin in the News

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12/06/02: MICHIGAN WEIGHS LOWER DIOXIN STANDARDS

 

Engler's Critics Accuse Him of Giving Dow Chemical 'Sweetheart Deal'

 

By Eric Pianin. Wash. Post, Pg. A02 (excerpted)

 

" In one of his final acts as Michigan governor, John Engler ® is trying

to ease state standards for toxic dioxin pollution, a move that could

relieve Dow Chemical Co. of substantial liability for future cleanup

operations at the company's headquarters and along a large watershed

leading into Lake Huron. Granholm, the outgoing state attorney general,

said during a campaign stop in a contaminated area downstream from the Dow

facility: " There is a definite lack of governmental accountability here. "

 

" Dioxin... is a byproduct from the manufacture of Agent Orange, mustard

gas, chlorinated pesticides and chlorophenol at Dow headquarters over the

past half-century. Experts say the elevated levels of dioxin found in

Midland soil likely came from the burning of chlorinated compounds, while

the dioxin in the Tittabawassee flood plain likely came from waste ponds at

the Dow complex that overflowed in a 1986 flood. The proposed rule change

would increase by more than ninefold the amount of dioxin allowed in

Midland's soil -- from the current 90 parts per trillion to 831 parts per

trillion. "

 

LAWSUIT FILED:

http://www.ecocenter.org/releases/20021209dow.shtml

 

A SUPERB COLLECTION of legal & government documents, notes, background

information on Dow, Dioxin, and that Dow's global headqtrs. is in Midland,

Michigan:

http://www.ecocenter.org/healthdow.shtml

 

$1.2 MILLION GIFT FROM DOW to establish public health professorship at the

University of Michigan focusing on health effects, risks, and benefits of

chemicals in the environment (one of many amazing donations and facts about

Dow from:

http://www.infact.org/dowimba.html

 

DOW LARGEST TOTAL DIOXIN EMITTER IN MICHIGAN (New Federal Data):

http://www.mecprotects.org/pr5_24_02.html

 

DOW's WEBSITE:

http://www.dow.com/Homepage/index.html

" Living. Improved daily. "

 

http://www.dow.com/environment/ehs.html

" At Dow, protecting people and the environment is part of everything we do

and every decision we make. "

 

http://www.dow.com/environment/reports/2001/20011109.html

" Building Trust Through Sustainable Development "