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> No url so did a search and came across:
> http://www.thegreatboycott.net/
>
> Revolt Against the Empire
> by Jon Rappoport
> Introduction
>
> This is a boycott against the eight biggest pesticide
> companies in the world, but it is much more than that.
> It's a boycott against THE POWER and against a way of
> life represented by all the gigantic multinational
> corporations, which every day extend their control
> over the planet. By the time you finish reading this
> material you'll realize how destructive their power
> is, in detail. You'll understand more clearly why
> these simple stark things need to be done:
>
> stop buying these corporations' products;
> don't buy their stock on whatever exchanges they're
> traded;
> demand that others including institutions sell their
> stock in these companies;
> don't work for these corporations;
> find a way to personally pass on the word.
> This is definitely a PASS IT ON thing.
> The eight corporations to be boycotted are:
>
> Dow
> Du Pont
> Monsanto
> Imperial Chemical Industries
> Novartis
> Rhone Poulenc
> Bayer
> Hoechst
> There is one overriding reason for going after these
> eight corporations. They are all forwarding genetic
> projects to engineer food seeds so that our food
> supply in the fields will accept much higher doses of
> herbicides without curling up and dying. This will
> drench both the soil and our bodies with corporate
> toxic chemicals and improve their profit statements.
>
> Of course, these mega-companies are up to their
> eyeballs in poisons. Poisons, you might say, are their
> life.
>
> These corporations and others like them stand for
> control of the planet, as around us the rich get
> richer and the poor get poorer.
>
> Huge multinationals, of course blur with governments,
> thereby availing themselves of important political
> connections, intelligence agencies, military links.
>
> Despite protestations to the contrary, multinationals
> that destroy the world's air, water, soil, trees and
> human/animal health don't consider life the bottom
> line. Money and power are always the bottom line.
> Toxic clean-ups and smokestack filters
> notwithstanding.
>
> Shall we passively go along with the redefinition of
> global life as 'units produced' and 'number of android
> employees hypnotized into loving the cubicle, the
> factory line, the lab, the computer station'?
>
> Shall we say this is the highest and best expression
> of life on this planet?
>
> Shall we say we accept a planet seeping with chemical
> poisons?
>
> Shall we decide to create a pink fluff of
> "spirituality" around our heads and buffer ourselves
> off from the destruction of the natural world?
>
> Shall we pretend that electing people from one party
> or another to national office will unseat these
> corporate rulers?
>
> Shall we fake it entirely?
>
> Shall we imagine that growing a little organic garden
> in the backyard will completely stop the annual use in
> the U.S. of six trillion pounds of industrial
> chemicals?
>
> We are dealing with monopolies. A monopoly will say or
> do anything to dominate its chosen sphere. You throw
> out a monopoly by doing two things:
>
> boycotting the hell out of it as described above;
>
> and then developing real alternatives for their toxic
> products. So, yes, the worldwide revolution in organic
> growing of food is a tremendous alternative to
> pesticide mongers, but not without a powerful, loud
> and ongoing boycott. These companies, if forced into
> lower production of pesticides, will try ANYTHING to
> win. Hell, they'll sell the idea that tons of their
> organophosphates should be released into outer space
> to kill floating viruses! And you know what? Millions
> of brain-dead TV-watchers would buy in.
>
> If you think I'm exaggerating in estimating how far
> multinationals will go in trying to peddle their
> toxins, meditate on the fact that the completely
> descredited and horrible drug, Thalidomide, a sedative
> that caused massive deformation in babies, is now
> being tested on people with AIDS.
>
> Dow and Monsanto would still be selling their stocks
> of Agent Orange left over from the Vietnam War if
> enough people hadn't kept up a thunder of protest
> about dioxin, the molecule this defoliant contained
> which causes cancer, birth defects and immune
> suppression, and is called by scientists the most
> poisonous small molecule on the planet.
>
> So the answer to a monopoly is: boycott it and lay
> down real alternatives to the needs it pretends to
> fill.
>
> The Great Boycott is not being run as an organization
> with a single leader and a cadre of assistants. It is
> being run by YOU. On your own you'll find new nasty
> multinationals to add to the list and you'll spell out
> the reasons why. You'll discover good boycotts already
> underway sponsored by people who have worked harder
> than any of us for years, decades. This boycott if it
> succeeds will be run by small groups of people all
> over the world using the Internet, faxes, home-grown
> articles, videos, audio tapes. Using self published
> booklets, papers, info sheets, flyers. In LA we're
> going to have monthly meetings to keep our
> participation moving out into wider circles.
>
> The way things look, unless we launch a major effort
> our human societies in the 21st Century are going to
> disappear up their own anuses. If that's too graphic
> for you, take a look some time at Rocky Flats,
> Colorado, world center for poisonous leaking
> chemicals; or look at a baby deformed by these
> chemicals. That's what graphic really is. Steady state
> politeness and niceness are not going to carry the
> day. Don't knuckle under. Don't believe liars. Don't
> march off the cliff. Boycott!
>
> The Corporations
> Each of these eight corporations is at least four
> things: a pesticide company, a pharmaceutical company,
> a genetic food seed company and a producer of
> industrial chemicals.
>
> Du Pont
> Number one in chemical sales in the U.S. $35 billion.
> 141,000 employees. Headquarters Wilmingon, Delaware.
> The definitive text on this transnational has been
> written by Gerard Colby. It is called Du Pont Dynasty:
> Behind the Nylon Curtain (1984 Lyle Stuart).
>
> Colby and Ralph Nader agree that Du Pont owns
> Delaware. Sixty percent of the state works for a Du
> Pont asset of some kind.
>
> "Predictably", Colby writes,
> "the long arm of Du Pont can also be found in
> Washington, D.C. Du Pont family members have
> represented Delaware in both houses of Congress. In
> the last 40 years Du Pont Lieutenants have served as
> representatives, senators, U.S. Attorney General,
> secretaries of Defense, Directors of the CIA and even
> Supreme Court Justices. With this power 'the armorers
> of the Republic', as they like to call themselves,
> have helped drive America into world wars, sabotaged
> world disarmament conferences ..."
>
> Co-owner of the Salem nuclear power plant in the
> Delaware River, the Du Pont asset Delmarva Power and
> Light has supported a facility literally built on
> sand. The plant has had structural cracks, radioactive
> water leaks and incidents of over-pressurization.
>
> "The Du Ponts," writes Colby,
> "have a big stake in nuclear power. Their chemical
> company helped make the atomic and hydrogen bombs for
> the government, operates the nation's only processor
> of heavy water, tritium, and weapons grade plutonium .
> . . For years Du Pont has been one of the government's
> largest nuclear contractors, and its recently acquired
> oil subsidiary Conoco (Continental Oil Company) owns
> one of the largest uranium reserves and processing
> mills in the United States."
> Therefore, Du Pont is one of the major major guilty
> parties in the nuclear waste disposal problem --
> which, of couse, as any jackass can see by now, is
> insoluble and sets up the planet for more and more
> radiation leaks and spills.
> Du Pont's Deepwater manufacturing complex in southern
> New Jersey consists of over 400 buildings. It was
> first closed down, Colby states, in the 1920's by the
> U.S. Surgeon General,
> "... for poisoning its workers.
> Deep within its bowels, embedded in plants and
> buildings, uranium oxide residue left behind by Du
> Pont's involvement in producing the first atomic bombs
> for the Manhattan Project slowly penetrates the lives
> of thousands of workers, who are either unsuspecting
> or to terrified of unemployment to allow themselves to
> wonder. Other chemical poisonings of workers at
> Deepwater have already contributed to New Jersey's
> Salem County's having the highest bladder cancer death
> rate in the nation."
>
> Du Pont owns the drug firm Endo Labs. Endo has sold a
> pain reliever Dipyrone (Valpirone in Latin America).
> This drug, outlawed for most uses in the United
> States, and all uses in Australia, can and does cause
> death by altering blood composition and attacking the
> bone marrow. However, no heavy warnings are displayed
> on the bottle in Latin America. Death is an acceptable
> end result.
>
> Du Pont has fought health on all fronts when it's bad
> for business, and it frequently is.
> Du Pont objected to the EPA lowering lead content in
> gasoline. It was and is a major manufacturer of leaded
> gasoline, despite solid evidence that lead causes
> brain damage.
>
> It stonewalled widespread warnings about the danger of
> workers; exposure to low level radiation at its
> Savannah River nuclear plant, where they make all the
> weapons grade plutonium in the western hemisphere.
> It stonewalled evidence of the plant's radioactive
> contamination of the Tuscaloosa, south Carolina,
> aquifer.
> It denied the cancer causing effects of its
> Alpha-nepthylamine in dye and pigment manufacturing.
> It held back employee medical data to stop a federal
> investigation of a Du Pont plant at Belle, West
> Virginia, where the cancer rate was high.
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> Its director of R&D, Dr. Ted Cairas, "successfully
> refuted" charges that the famous outbreak of
> Legionnaires' Disease actually came from leaks in the
> Bellevue Stafford Hotel's air-conditioning system --
> which contained Du Pont's F-11 Flurocarbon
> refrigerant. F-11, which, with a tiny amount of heat,
> breaks down into phosgene, a nerve gas.
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>
> In 1980 Du Pont issued a confidential book on
> manipulating its own troublesome workers (and busting
> unions). This was part of its answer to revelations
> that at its Chambers facility in Northern Delaware,
> carciogens like chlorobenzene, toluene, and
> D-dichlorobenzene were being wafted into the
> atmosphere;
> that Du Pont's Newport pigments plant was poisoning
> the Potomac aquifer, "a major source of drinking water
> for Northern Delaware" (Colby);
>
> that Newport and Cherry Island and Tybouts Corner and
> Llangollen were all being cited by a Congressional
> Report as dangerous landfills used by Du Pont. In
> 1992, ( the most recent year available for figures) Du
> Pont produced three quarters of billion pounds of
> toxic and/or carcinogenic industrial waste.
>
> (Note: All these corporate industrial waste figures
> come from the astonishing report Toxic Wastes '95
> issued by Inform Inc., 120 Wall Street, New York, New
> York 10005.)
>
> Colby concludes that the inner-core of the Du Pont
> family -- about fifty men and women -- own assets
> worth 211 billion dollars (as of 1984!).
>
> Is there any field in which this super-rich empire of
> companies has not caused toxic trouble? Colby writes:
>
> "Du Pont in May 1977 confirmed that its own studies
> indicated 'excess cancer incidents and cancer
> mortality among workers exposed to Acrylonitrile at a
> Du Pont textile fibers and synthetic rubber; the
> chemical was also suspected by the Food and Drug
> Administration of migrating into beverages in plastic
> containers made with Acrylonitrile. The FDA has
> already closed three Monsanto plants that made such
> plastic bottles. Some 120,000 workers in the United
> States were exposed to Acrylonitrile manufacturing.
> When the number of consumers who used plastic bottles
> made with the chemical were also included, the figure
> ran into the millions with incalculable long-term
> effects."
>
> The Crimes have never stopped. A 1964 (!) internal
> memo from Du Pont physiologist, G.J. Stoops, revealed
> that even then, sixteen years before Du Pont would
> face a suit by six of its workers suffering from
> terminal lung cancer -- asbestosis -- the company knew
> that its widespread use of asbestos insulation was a
> major health hazard.
>
> Du Pont is chemicalization of life in this world.
> There is hardly a field of commercial toxicity in
> which Du Pont has not played a major role.
>
> Although now, in 1996, we can try to say that all of
> Gerard Colby's revelations are "history", in fact the
> long-term effects of chemical lunacy live on. That is
> one of the points about chemical hazards -- they tend
> to persist.
>
> Du Pont in 1988 decided it would phase out its world
> leading production of CFC's (chlorofluorocarbons),
> which are said to be the major source of depletion in
> the ozone layer. Not only has it continued to
> stonewall the issue while producing CFC's, it has put
> forward a likely successor to this compound, HFC-134A
> is in part made out of CFC's and in addition produces
> carbon tetrachloride, a poison, as a byproduct.
>
> Karen Lohr, a spokesperson for Ozone Action, told
> reporter Beth Burrows in her fall 1993 Boycott
> Quarterly article on Du Pont, ". . . Du Pont announced
> on March 8, 1993, that they plan to continue to
> produce and profit from ozone destroying chemicals
> until 2030. They will only do a partial halt of
> manufacturing CFC's, having agreed only to end
> production in developed countries."
>
> In a ten-year fiasco and tragedy (1985-1995), Du Pont
> set out to build a nylon factory in Goa, India. Du
> Pont, to address Bhopal-like concerns of local people,
> placed an ad in a Goa newspaper which said, "We will
> not handle, use, sell, transport or dispose of a
> product unless we can do it in a environmentally sound
> manner."
>
> Of couse, Du Pont had already made an ironclad pact
> with its Indian subsidiary that any damage claims
> resulting from a toxic incident at the Goa plant would
> be settled entirely at the local level with no money
> drain on the parent company.
>
> Then Goa activists discovered a Du Pont memo form the
> U.S. to its Goan company. The memo admitted that
> ground water around the new plant, waste water from
> manufacturing, recycling processes and air quality
> were all issues up for grabs -- safegauards were not
> up to proper standards.
>
> Four months of confrontations at the plant with local
> police ensued. In January 1995, the police fired into
> a crowd and killed a twenty-five year old man.
>
> Du Pont decided to move the plant. It chose a new site
> near Madras. Opposition there is also building . . .
>
> In the Multinational Monitor of October 1991, Jack
> Doyle writes in a story title "Du Pont's Disgraceful
> Deeds":
>
> "Du Pont is the single largest corporate polluter in
> the United States. In 1989, the latest year for which
> data are available from the U.S. EPA, Du Pont and its
> subsidiaries reported discharging more than 348
> million pounds of pollutants to land, air and water .
> . . Much of the company's current waste is disposed of
> by deep-well injection. Du Pont leads all other
> companies in the use of this technique, injecting
> 254.9 million pounds of toxic wastes into underground
> geologic formations in 1989 . . . but underground
> injection is an uncertain science at best . . . Thus
> far the U.S. GAO reports there have been at least 23
> cases in which drinking water contaminations is known
> to have been caused by deep well injected oil and gas
> wastes.
>
> "Du Pont has had operational problems with deep well
> injection . . . acid waste corrosion of well casings
> and weldings has . . . been reported at some of Du
> Pont's Ingleside Wells."
>
> What other toxic products does Du Pont make? Their
> pharmaceutical operations are replete with them.
>
> Du Pont Pharma Company manufactures several strong
> anti-cough medicines including Hycodan, a drug for the
> symptomatic relief of cough. The Physicians' Desk
> Reference (PDR) (note: all quotes on drug info are
> from the PDR) issues this warning: "may be
> habit-forming . . . can produce drug dependence of the
> morphine type." Adverse reactions include mental
> clouding, lethargy, dizziness, mood changes, vomiting,
> urethral spasm, respiratory depression.
>
> Percocet and Percodan are two well-known pain killers.
> They can "produce dependence of the morphine type."
> Adverse reactions include dizziness and vomiting.
>
> Revia is used in the "treatment" of alcohol
> dependence. "Its use in patients with active liver
> disease must be carefully considered in light of its
> hepatoxic effects . . . Patients should be warned of
> the risk of hepatic injury and advised to stop the use
> of Revia and seek medical attention if they experience
> symptoms of acute hepatitis".
>
> Sinemet is used to treat Parkinson's disease (not a
> cure). Adverse reactions include involuntary
> movements, paranoid ideation, psycotic episodes,
> depression with or without development of suicidal
> tendencies, dementia, numbness, nightmares, abdominal
> pain, malignant melanoma, loss of hair, dark sweat,
> blurred vision, bizarre breathing patterns, and a
> life-threatening neurologic syndrome called NMS.
>
> Symmetrel is used for the "prevention" and treatment
> of signs of infection by strains of influenza type A
> virus. Adverse reactions include suicide attempts,
> blurring of vision, sporadic incidents of the
> life-threatnening NMS (neurologic) syndrome. Upon dose
> reduction or withdrawal of the drug, nausea, dizziness
> and insomnia can occur.
>
> Du Pont and Merck are partners in pharmaceutical
> research. Other researchers correctly linking these
> two megaliths may want to document the toxicity of the
> major drug output of Merck.
>
> Du Pont makes Comforel pillows, comforters and
> mattress pads; the fibers Lycra, Dacron, Nomex and
> Tyvek; Teflon; refined petroleum products are sold
> under the brand names Conoco, Jet and Seca; Remington
> firearms products. A Du Pont fungicide Benlate
> destroyed wholesale growers ornamental plants in 1993.
> In August 1995, the case concluded. A federal judge
> determined that Du Pont had kept vital soil testing
> info from the growers. The judges in rendering a
> verdict against Du Pont to the tune of $115 million
> said, "Put in laypersons' terms, Du Pont cheated, . .
> . consciously, deliberately and with purpose."
>
> In April, 1996, a U.S. family will go to court against
> Du Pont charging that their use of this same home
> fungicide Benlate caused their son to be born without
> eyes (see Multinational Monitor, December 1995).
>
> Earlier in October 1995, two other Du Pont fungicides,
> Benomyl and Cardazim, became the focus of a court case
> filed in Florida. The lawyers representing families in
> Scotland are claiming extreme physical damage to their
> clients from these fungicides' use.
>
> Dow
>
> Number two in chemical sales in the U.S. Employees:
> 58,000. Sales: $20 billion. Headquarters: Midland,
> Michigan, U.S.
>
> Dow, the manufacturer of Napalm and Agent Orange
> during Vietnam War, and now the target of a billion
> dollars worth of lawsuits over their highly
> destructive silicone breast implants, is partners with
> the drug firm Ely Lilly in Dow Elanco, a spinoff
> company that is the largest producer of insecticides
> and fungicides in the U.S.
>
> Dow must have a magnetic attraction for severe
> defoliants. Having distanced itself from Agent Orange
> -- its partner Lilly now makes Tebuthiuron, an
> herbicide that kills soil so that no plants can grow
> on it in the future. Sounds like a weapon of war.
>
> Of course Dow also tries to distance itself from
> dioxin (contained in tis Vietnam era Agent Orange),
> but Greenpeace reports that hugely produced chlorine
> based Dow products -- pesticides, solvents and PVC
> plastics -- are the single largest source in the world
> of dioxin today.
>
> Dow owns Marion Merrell Dow (MMD), a major
> pharmaceutical house. Like all drug companies, whether
> you know it or not, the commercial output of MMD is
> chillingly toxic. Let's start there.
>
> Examples:
>
> MMD's vaginal supository AVC cream is used to treat
> candida albicans. The PDR states that there is no data
> available on the long term potential of AVR for
> causing cancer or birth defects, but "deaths
> associated with administration of oral sulfonamides
> (such as AVC) have reportedly occured form
> hypersensitivity reactions, agranulocytosis, aplastic
> anemia and other blood discrasias." . . . Comforting.
>
> Bentyl, Dow's drug for irritable bowel syndrome, also
> has in the PDR listing "no known data" for long term
> potential carcinogenicity or birth defects, but
> "psychosis has been reported in sensitive
> individuals." There are also, the PDR says, reports of
> deaths from respiratory collapse.
>
> Cardizem, the Dow drug for hypetension and angina,
> carries the PDR caution: "Worsening of congestive
> heart failure has been reported in patients with
> preexisting impairment of ventricular function."
>
> Nothing could prepare a sane person for the PDR's
> description of Dow's Clomid, a drug that attempts to
> produce ovulatory stimulation so that pregnancy can
> occur in women for whom that would otherwise be
> unlikely.
>
> Here is a partial list of Clomid's post-marketing
> adverse effects:
> seizure
> stroke
> psychosis
> cataracts
> posterior vitreous detachment
> arrhythmia
> tachycardia
> hepatitis
> liver and breast and pituitary and ovarian and kidney
> and tongue and bladder cancer
> brain abscess
> tubal pregnancy
> uterine hemorrhage
> ovarian hemorrhage
> In the babies born to the mothers taking Clomid, there
> have occurred:
> neuroectodermal tumor
> thyroid tumor
> leukemia
> abnormal bone development including skeletal
> malformations of the skull, face, nasal passages, jaw,
> hand, limb and foot joints
>
> malformations of the anus, eye, lens, ear, lung, heart
> and genitalia
>
> dwarfism
>
> deafness
>
> mental retardation
>
> chromosomal disorders
>
> neural tube defects
>
> Lorelco, Dow's drug aimed at lowering cholesterol, has
> this ominous PDR caution: females should be warned not
> to become pregnant for at least six months after
> discontinuing Lorelco. Lorelco's adverse effects?
> Gastrointestinal bleeding
>
> vomiting
> low hemoglobin
> fetid sweat
> impotency
> anorexia
> diminished sense of taste and smell.
>
> Dow makes Norpramin, an antidepressant. The PDR
> states: "It is important that this drug be dispensed
> in the least possible quantities to depressed
> outpatients since suicide has been accomplished with
> this class of drug."
> Some of the effects of Norpramin are:
> both elevating and lowering of blood sugar levels
> heart block, myocardial infarction, stroke
> sudden death
> hallucinations, delusions
> tremors, ataxia, peripheral neuropathy, seizures
> dilation of urinary tract
> bone marrow depression
> vomiting, black tongue, hepatitis
> impotence, painful ejaculation, testicular swelling
> weight gain or loss.
> (Note: In these drug summaries I don't even bother to
> comment about the uniform unworkability of the drugs
> on the causes of the illnesses for which they are
> prescribed nor will I comment on a further danger: the
> effects of combining several drugs at once. Nor on the
> fact that OTHER non-toxic remedies and approaches to
> health would eliminate the need for these drugs and
> their poisonous effects.)
>
> Dow makes Rifadin, a "semi-synthetic" antibiotic for
> the treatment of tuberculosis. The PDR comments,
> "Rifadin has been shown to produce liver dysfunction.
> Fatalities associated with jaundice have occurred in
> patients with (previous) liver disease." The PDR
> further issues a bizarre warning -- "Rifadin can cause
> the urine, feces, saliva, sputum, sweat, and tears to
> turn red-orange. "Permanent discoloration of soft
> contact lenses may occur."
> The suggested Rifadin dosage for people with TB is
> 600mg a day for six to nine months. Yet the PDR gives
> this warning: "High doses of Rifadin greater than
> 600mg given once or twice a week have resulted in high
> incidence of adverse reactions, including leukopenia
> (abnormal decrease in white blood corpuscles),
> thrombocytopenia (abnormal decrease in blood
> platelets), acute hemolytic anemia, shock, renal
> failure."
> Among Rifadin's other advese effects are anorexia,
> vomiting and menstrual disturbances.
> I have tried in listing adverse effects to avoid
> dipping into the explicit PDR category "rare" and the
> category, "has been found to occur in less that 1% of
> people taking drug and vanishes upon discontinuing
> drug." That leaves the open categories of "general
> adverse effects" or "we don't really know how many
> people on the drug suffer from these effects" or the
> "these effects are reported to occur after drug is
> marketed to the public and there is no way to prove
> the effects are caused by the drug." I have relied for
> the most part on these three last categories.
> Dow and Ely Lilly and Company of Indianapolis are
> partners in a corporation called Dow Elanco, one of
> the largest producers of agricultural chemicals in the
> world. As a 40 percent partner Lilly falls within the
> purview of Dow and so I have justifiably included its
> drug products under the umbrella of Dow in this
> section.
>
> Lilly manufactures Heparin sodium (derived from the
> intestinal mucosa of pigs), a blood anticoagulant used
> to prevent clotting. Says the PDR, "hemorrhage can
> occur at virtually any site in patients receiving
> Heparin. Patients on the drug can develop an
> "irreversible aggregation of (blood) platelets . . .
> (which) may lead to gangrene of the extremities . . .
> (and) amputation, mycardial infarction, pulmonary
> emoblism, stroke and possibly death."
>
> Lilly's Nalfon is an NSAID for (non-steroidal
> anti-inflammatory drug). Every year in the U.S. seven
> to eight thousand people die from the administration
> of NSAIDs and between 70,000 to 80,000 are
> hospitalized from their use.
>
> Lilly's Prozac is the wildly popular "in"
> anti-depressant of the moment. Prior to its release,
> it was never tested on humans for longer than thirteen
> weeks. Prozac has been associated with suicidal and
> murderous behavior, and the dampening of sexual
> desire. Its other effects include insomnia, anxiety,
> and anorexia (in 9 percent of the patients in clinical
> trials). Fifteen percent of the 4,000 patients who
> received Prozac in pre-release clinical trials
> discontinued treatment due to "an adverse event."
>
> Diethylstilbestrol, a Lilly drug, is a synthetic
> estrogenic substance used for breast cancer and
> prostate cancer (as a palliative only). The PDR
> states, "WARNING: USE OF ESTROGENS HAS BEEN REPORTED
> TO INCREASE THE RISK OF ENDOMETRIAL CARCINOMA.
> ESTROGENS SHOULD NOT BE USED DURING PREGNANCY. ITS USE
> MAY CAUSE SEVERE HARM TO THE FETUS. More PDR quotes on
> this drug:
>
> "A recent study reported a two to threefold increase
> in the risk of gall bladder disease occuring in women
> receiving post-menstrual estrogen therapy . . . "
>
> "In a large prospective clinical trial in men, large
> doses of estrogen . . . comparable to those used to
> treat cancer of the prostrate . . . have been shown to
> increase the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction,
> pulmonary emobilism. . . "
>
> Adverse reactions to diethylstilbestrol include
> breakthrough bleeding, spotting and change in
> menstrual flow; vomiting; cholestatic jaundice;
> hemorrhagic skin eruption; corneal curvature; and
> migraine.
>
> All these effects for a cancer treatment that is
> admittedly only a palliative?
>
> (Note: The January 28, 1994, Congressional Quarterly
> in its report, Regulating Pesticides, points out that
> pollutants in the environment are being found to
> contain estrogenic substances. And that several
> researchers have linked exposure to estrogens with
> cancer, including breast cancer. (Now read the above
> section the drug diethlystilbestrol again and if you
> mind isn't completely blown, check your breath on a
> mirror.)
>
> The above list and description of medical drugs is
> certainly not meant to be all-inclusive vis-a-vis Dow.
> It is just a bitter sample. If you find yourself
> saying, "Well, even if these drugs have some horrible
> effects, the doctors who prescribe them must know what
> they're doing", consider that once people said exactly
> that about the U.S. corporations who were busy
> spilling poisonous chemicals into the rivers of this
> land. "They must know what they're doing. They would
> never . . ." But they did. And these corporations are
> manufacturing the kinds of medical drugs I've just
> been describing AND the industrial chemicals AND the
> pesticides. Wake up and smell the poisons!
>
> Who could present a complete and specific portrait of
> Dow's yearly industrial wastes? Inform, Inc. (New York
> City) has done an analysis of quantity in its Toxics
> Watch 1995 report. It culls the top twenty
> corporations from a total of 10,840 parent companies
> in the U.S. Dow ranks sixth in "production-related
> toxic chemical wastes, carcinogens and ozone depleting
> chemicals . . .". How many pounds of waste are we
> talking about defecated by Dow into the world? 517.5
> million pounds for 1992! Half a billion pounds.
>
> Susan Cooper of the National Coalition Against the
> Misuse of Pesticides names Dow's pesticide Dursban as
> a serious creator of health problems: nausea,
> headaches, behavioral changes in children. She told
> the Multinational Monitor that at least one out of
> every two phone calls that her office takes about
> pesticide complaints concerns Dursban. The Pesticide
> Action Network states that Dow produced or sold three
> pesticides on their "Dirty Dozen" list before 1980.
> One of these DBCP, ordered to be phased out by the
> EPA, now shows up being sold by Dow to the Dole
> Corporation, which has used it on its banana
> plantations in Costa Rica. DBCP contaminated ground
> water for several thousand square miles in the
> California central valley and caused sterility in
> agricultural workers. Four other Dow agricultural
> chemicals, Gallant, Verdict, Gauntlet, and Tridal,
> banned by the EPA, have shown up in Africa, Latin
> America, Central America, Asia and Europe.
>
> Beyond the products mentioned so far, what to boycott
> made by Dow?
>
> Styrofoam labeled plastic products, agricutlural
> herbicides (Starane, Spike, Treflan), the soil
> fumigant Telone, and two insecticides, Dursban and
> Lorsban. It makes over-the-counter drugs: Norhistamine
> (cough), Cepacol, Gly-Oxide (antiseptic), Cepastat
> lozenges, Citrucel laxative, Delbrox (ear care),
> Gaviscon (antacid), the calcium supplement Os-Cal.
>
> Household products include Ziploc Bags, Fantastik
> Cleaner, Handi-Wrap, Saran Wrap, Spray 'N Wash, Dow
> Bathroom Cleaner, Glass Plus Multi-Surface Cleaner,
> Smart Scrub, Ultra Yes laundry detergent, Vivid bleach
> and Style and Perma Soft hair products.
>
> It should also be noted that Dow manufactures benzene,
> widely acknowledged as a carcinogen.
>
> Of course, all this information is faxed and
> internetted around the world, people outside the U.S.
> will find the Dow subsidiaries in their countries and
> the products they make. In the U.S. the reference text
> The Directory of Multinationals is a good source for
> the names of these subsidiary corporations.
>
> So to this point, you have much more than sufficient
> evidence of massive toxicity to justify a boycott of
> Dow. You can also see that boycotting their products
> is in some cases awkward, because wholesalers and
> companies, not individuals, are Dow's customers. More
> reason to press disinvestment, making it
> unconscionable to hold stock of this company.
>
> We welcome additions and more complete descriptions of
> products entered by other researchers. But don't
> accept any softening of the boycott stance or baloney
> about how Dow is improving its environmental
> responsibility. Despite changes, these corporations
> are toxic from top to bottom. Do you negotiate with
> them? Let other groups do that. This is a global
> educational campaign to isolate the biggest chemical
> companies from the rest of us who want a world we can
> live in. Expose the naked truth. Poison is poison.
>
> Monsanto
>
> Monsanto, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri,
> employs 45,000 people and peddles over eight billion
> dollars a year in chemical products to the planet. Its
> Roundup is the world's largest selling herbicide.
> Monsanto owns the drug firm G.D. Searle and Company, a
> major phramceutical supplier. Add to this branches
> which manufacture a whole range of fibers, plastics,
> resins, rubber and metallised materials and you have a
> giant.
>
> Monsanto has been under great heat for some time for
> their production of NutraSweet and the genetically
> engineered BGH (Bovine Growth Hormone). Ongoing
> American boycotts launched out of Atlanta and
> Hillsboro, Wisconsin, are taking their toll. (Family
> farm Defenders, P.O. Box 581, Hillsboro, Wisconsin,
> 54634, for BGH; and Betty Martini, 9270 River Club
> Parkway Duluth, Georiga 30097, 770 242-2599, for
> NutraSweet.) Another Monsanto boycott is being run by
> Pure Dairy Commission, RR 2, Box 191, New Auburn WI
> 54757.
>
> The U.S. FDA, as of April 20, 1995, has reported
> 10,386 volunteered consumer complaints stemming from
> NutraSweet, aka Equal (aspartame). Among the symptoms
> listed are blindness seizures, memory loss, loss of
> limb control, slurred speech, skin lesions, extremity
> numbness, depression, mood swings, anxiety attacks,
> coma and death.
>
> Aspartame is a food addititve 180 to 200 times sweeter
> than sugar. Absorbed very quickly into the bloodstream
> it metabolizes into six to eight byproducts including
> methyl alcohol and the class A carcinogen,
> formaldehyde. At least a hundred million Americans
> consume products containing NutraSweet (e.g., certain
> Coca Cola and Pepsi drinks, Children's Tylenol
> Chewable Tablets, Flintstones Complete Children's
> Chewable Vitamins, Metamucil Sugarfree, Breath Savers,
> Wrigley's Extra Sugar Free Gum, Kellogg's All Bran,
> Twin Labs Endurance Quick fix Powder, Calcilyte).
>
> The early research history of aspartame was plagued
> with deception. Animal studies were faked (S.O.P. for
> the drug industry), on top of the fact that even real
> animal data would have had no provable crossover to
> humans. The resulting FDA approval of aspartame paved
> the way for disaster.
>
> H.J. Roberts, M.D., a diabetes specialist and member
> of the American Diabetes Association, states that
> aspartame brings on clinical diabetes and causes
> convulsions.
>
> Ralph G. Walton's aspartame study published in
> Biological Psychiatry (1993 34:13-17), led him to
> conclude "individuals with mood disorders are
> particularly sensitive to this artificial sweetener;
> its use in this population should be discouraged." On
> another occasion Walton was much more blunt: "I know
> it (aspartame) causes seizures. I'm convinced also
> that it definitely causes behavioral changes. I'm very
> angry that this substance is on the market. I
> personally question the reliability and validity of
> any studies funded by the NutraSweet Company."
>
> A dozen airplane magazines, including Flying Safety,
> published by the U.S. Air Force, have issued warnings
> about seizures and vertigo among pilots ingesting
> aspartame.
>
> And all this is just the tip of the iceberg on this
> product.
>
> Monsanto's BGH, the new growth hormone now injected
> into cows all over the U.S. to make them produce more
> milk, is another debacle. 93 percent of the nations's
> dairy farmers refuse to use the product. In Europe BGH
> is banned, at least until the year 2000. Why? Because
> this hormone makes cows sick -- leading to treatment
> with high levels of antibiotics which along with pus
> then find their way into the milk supply. reports of
> serious health and reproductive problems among U.S.
> cows have shot up since February 1995. Meanwhile
> Monsanto has tried to intimidate all those who label
> their milk products BGH-free. The corporation has
> actually brought lawsuits against such farmers and,
> through a related organization, has sued the state of
> Vermont over its permissive attitude toward BGH
> labeling. This obvious encroachement on the First
> Amendment is, of course, outrageous, but the
> Department of Justice does nothing to stop it.
>
> Dr. Samuel Epstein, a well known public health
> advocate and professor of environmental medicine,
> states that "cell stimulating growth factors" such as
> BGH could lead to breast cancer in humans and bring
> about premature growth in babies. Monsanto, of course,
> cannot produce any safety data vis-a-vis humans
> because BGH is a crapshoot using million of people as
> experimental subjects.
>
> More toxicity in its products? Of course. In 1985, not
> long before Monsanto would be exposed for having
> rigged a dioxin study in its favor (it made Agent
> Orange), the Pesticide Action Network named Monsanto's
> insecticied Parathion as one of the dirtiest dozen
> pesticides used around the world. Multinational
> Monitor states that Parathion "may be responsible for
> half the world's pesticide poisonings and 80 pecent of
> those in central America." Monsanto stopped making
> Parathion in 1986, claiming "market considerations".
>
> Monsanto's herbicide Butachlor, marketed in foreigh
> countries as Machete and Lambast, has never been
> permanently approved by the EPA. Adverse effects of
> the chemical include weight loss, weight changes in
> internal organs, reduced brain size together with
> lesions. Butachlor, reports Multinational Monitor, can
> be found in the U.S. food supply. It's used in
> Argentina, Brazil, China, India, the Philippines,
> Taiwan, Thailand and Venezuela, which means that up to
> 97 percent of our rice imports could contain it.
>
> Monsanto Lasso is the largest selling herbicide in the
> U.S. Lasso is everywhere on corn and soybeans. Only
> through extreme pressure on the EPA was Monsanto able
> to keep the compound on the market. EPA had already
> called Lasso "a probable carcinogen".
>
> The only U.S. producer of the notorious PCBs
> (polychlorinated biphenyls) since 1929, Monsanto was
> forced to stop making this carcinogen in 1977 after
> having spread it (1.4 billion pounds) into every
> corner of America's land, water and human and animal
> bodies. By 1990, every trout and salmon over a foot
> long in the Great Lakes was contaminated with PCBs.
>
> Monsanto is a leader in the biotech revolution that
> threatens to engineeer the genes of every food crop on
> the planet. This year (1996) Monsanto will introduce
> its altered soybean to the world of commerce. The bean
> is altered to withstand, without keeling over, higher
> levels of Monsanto's chemical herbicide Roundup. You
> will ingest these higher levels of Roundup.
>
> Monsanto now owns 49.9 percent of Calgene, the maker
> of the Flavr Savr tomato engineered for longer shelf
> life. Soon to come from the parent company? Varieties
> of canola, cotton, maize sugar beets and rapeseed oil,
> all of which will also tolerate higher level of
> Roundup, and pass the poison on to you.
>
> The Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C.
> has placed Monsanto at the top of its "dirty sixteen"
> companies and universities which are trying to extend
> the legal patenting of life forms. In response to this
> charge, an unruffled Monsanto spokesman said that the
> company puts 120 million dollars a year into biotech
> research and development, and there are no problems.
>
> As if all this weren't enough, Monsanto's drug
> company, G.D. Searle, continues to turn out its share
> of toxic compounds for ingestion, as an adjunct to
> eating Monsanto pesticide. Examples:
>
> Daypro, an NSAID for arthritis -- NSAIDS, as mentioned
> above, routinely cause 7,000 deaths a year in the U.S.
> and 70-80,000 hospitalizations.
>
> Demulen, an oral contraceptive, is an estrogenic
> compound. Very reassuring at a time when environmental
> scientists are linking estrogenic pollutants to breast
> cancer.
>
> Flagyl, an oral synthetic antiprotozoal and
> antibacterial, can cause convulsive seizures,
> peripheral neuropathy, a significant lessening of
> white blood corpuscles, and can make candida
> infections worse.
>
> Kerlone for "management of hypertension" can
> contribute to cardiac failure.
>
> Lomotil, the anti-diarrhea drug, has a number of
> adverse effects including tachycardia, vomiting,
> depression, numbness of extremities and pancreatitis.
>
> A 1991 report by the Foundation for Advancements in
> Science and Education indicates that Monsanto stands
> at the forefront of those companies who ship hazardous
> and potentially carcinogenic pesticides out of the
> country. For example, customs records for the period
> March to May 1990 reveal that a large anonymous St.
> Louis shipper sent over 21 million pounds -- over 116
> tons every day -- of these pesticides out of the U.S.
> There is only one shipper of pesticides in St. Louis
> and that is Monsanto.
>
> Beyond Searle's pharmaceuticals here is a list of
> Monsanto products to boycott:
>
> NutraSweet, Equal, BGH (aka rBGH, rBST, Posilac),
> Simplese (an artificial butter fat), Simple Pleasures
> Frozen Dairy Desserts, Salad Dressing and Mayonnaise;
>
> the artificial fibers Astroturf and Wear Dated
> Carpets;
>
> the garden herbicides Roundup and Dimension;
>
> agricultural chemicals: Lasso, Harness Plus, Far Go,
> Avauer, Machete, Bronco, Bullet, Cropstar GB, Freedom,
> Landmaster BW, Micro-Tech Partner, Ram Rod, Accord,
> Buckle, Fallow Master, Lariat, Rodeo;
>
> the feed supplement and preservative Alimet;
>
> the Flavr Savr tomato.
>
> The Family Farm Defenders Monsanto Boycott says: "Be
> alert for dozens of new Monsanto genetically
> engineered plants including corn, potatoes and
> soybeans."
>
> Clearly, as with all engineered foods, no long-term
> human studies will be done. The USFDA will
> automatically assume the gene insertion is safe for
> people and the subsequent migration of these genes
> into another plant species will have no untoward
> effect on the environment. In other words, the planet
> is a test tube.
>
> Bayer, Imperial Chemical Industies, Hoechst, Rhone
> Poulenc, Novartis
>
> These are the European counterparts of the big three
> American chemical poisoners described above. Bayer is
> the biggest of the eight. It is established that
> Bayer, Rhone Poulenc, Hoechst, and Novartis do
> business in the U.S. as pharmaceutical companies.
> They, of course, produce toxic drugs for human
> consumption. That is a given, just as it is a given
> that carcinogenicity can be found in industrial and
> agricultural chemicals. (Example: In 1989 Novartis'
> epilepsy drug Tegretol was found to cause an
> unexpectedly high rate of birth defects.)
>
> I have been able to put together a partial list,
> beyond the pharmaceuticals, of products to be
> boycotted for Bayer and Novartis.
>
> Bayer makes:
>
> Alkaseltzer
>
> One-A-Day Vitamins
>
> Flintstone Chewable Vitamins
>
> SOS Scouring Pads
>
> Bugs Bunny Vitamins
>
> Cutter insect repellent
>
> Of course, there is Bayer aspirin too, which by
> arrangement is marketed by another firm in the U.S.,
> but it should also be boycotted.
>
> Novartis in the U.S. sells:
>
> Funk Seeds Products
>
> Softcolor and Vision Care contact lenses
>
> Nupercaine Ointment
>
> Privine Nasal Spray
>
> Doan's Pills
>
> Fiberall Laxative
>
> Sunkist Vitamins
>
> the diet "aid" Accutrim and Ten-K, a potassium
> supplement.
>
> From Los Angeles it's not possible to assemble a
> complete portrait of the European companies. All have
> a chilling record of toxic output. That much is clear.
> All are busy genetically engineering food crops to
> withstand higher levels of pesticide and herbicide. I
> am hoping that circulating this case file on the
> American big three, friends in Europe will use the
> info and supply us in LA with their research on the
> other five megaliths.
>
> Our goal as humans has to be a straightforward one.
> Through a long-term publicity campaign, using all
> channels of info possible, isolate these companies
> (and others like them) as pariahs, as criminals
> standing outside community and civilization by any
> definition. Isolate these companies as entities no one
> wants to do business with on any level. That is the
> only lasting response to their toxic actions. If you
> think this is too strong and impolite a campaign, talk
> to some of the women who are suing Dow for promoting
> silicone implants as safe.
>
> I'll close with two remarks: Boycotting television in
> your own home is a great place to start in clearing up
> your head for this work.
>
> And think about this story. It involves Bayer, the
> largest chemical company in the world. Bayer and
> Hoechst were original members of the Nazi IG Farben
> cartel. During the Second World War Farben built a
> rubber and oil plant complex at the site of the
> Auschwitz concentration camp. The inmates worked as
> slave labor for Farben. When they were too weak to
> work they were killed in chambers -- where Zyklon B
> gas was used. Farben made Zyklon B. On July 29, 1948,
> sentences for mass murder and slavery were handed down
> at the Nuremberg trials to twelve Farben executives.
> The longest sentence dealt out was to Dr. Fritz ter
> Meer, a top executive and scientist on the Farben
> managing board. Seven years. Seven years.
>
> Flash forward to August 1, 1963. IG Farben, far from
> being chopped to ribbons, had a new life in Germany as
> the three separate and giant corporations which had
> once together formed its core: Bayer, Hoechst, and
> BASF. On this August 1 date Bayer celebrated its 100th
> anniversary at the Cologne fairgrounds -- a major
> event replete with philharmonic Handel and Wagner. The
> opening speech was delivered by, yes, Dr. Fritz ter
> Meer, now not only out of prison but -- a mass
> murderer -- elevated to the position of Chairman of
> the Supervisory Board of Bayer.
>
> Astonishing
>
> Of course, several texts, in tracing IG Farben's
> worldwide corporate connections at its high-water mark
> (1941), name seven of the eight corporations on this
> boycott list (excepting Rhone-Poulenc, for the moment)
> as having major ties to the Nazi cartel.
>
> Wars come and wars go, but apparently destruction by
> toxicity remains and it must be ended by world demand.
> The alternative is a wasting human population, its
> numbers vastly reduced, and a further poisoned planet.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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