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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'." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Nor is modern warfare good for the planet. agent orange, napalm, biological weapons, and high explosives have a far more devastating impact than bows and arrows or cannonballs. So far, we have managed to avoid the horrors of a nuclear war, but it remains an ever-present danger. As resources become less plentiful, food and water become more scarce, the gap between rich and poor grows, and climatic change promotes mass migrations, it is not difficult to imagine a number of scenarios leading, either accidentally or deliberately, to a nuclear conflagration." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Agent Orange defoliant used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War. In 2005, an advisory panel to the FDA concluded that triclosan and triclocarbon posed "unacceptable health and environmental risks," but the FDA hierarchy still ignores this conclusion and its implications. (See chapter 10 for more on triclosan and triclocarbon.) The third preservative, resorcinol, is well-known to block the synthesis and transport of the thyroid hormone, and to cause goiter in humans, primates, and other species." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"From the Bhopal disaster to the military use of herbicides like agent orange, agricultural chemicals have taken countless lives. The names of pesticides like Bravo, Monitor, Champ and Goal have a school-yard innocence that belies these precision snipers' deadly effects. Miticides target mites; herbicides decimate weeds; fungicides murder molds; and rodenticides snuff out small animals. Systemics are chemicals that course through the entire tree: roots, trunk, limbs, branches, sap, flowers, fruits and seeds. Then we eat them." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"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." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"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." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"This is a synthetic antibacterial ingredient that has been compared to agent orange. The Environmental Protection Agency registers it as a pesticide, highly toxic to any living organism. It is also classified as a chloro-phenol. In other words, it is in a cancer-causing chemical class.18 Triclosan disrupts hormones, can affect sexual function and fertility, and may foster birth defects.19 It is widely used in antibacterial cleansers, toothpaste, and household products. A number of studies have found that washing with regular soap and warm water is just as effective at killing germs." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"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." - Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide (Get the book.)

"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." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"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." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Doll's refusal to accept that any man-made chemicals can cause cancer and other serious health problems could not have been better reflected than in the testimony he gave against the Australian veterans of the Vietnam war whose health had been devastated by exposure to "Agent Orange." agent orange was a mixture of the two well-established carcinogenic herbicides 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D (the former having since been taken out of production in every country in the Western world). Produced by the Monsanto Corporation, agent orange was used as a defoliant by the U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., The Politics of Cancer Revisited (Get the book.)

"You may have heard of some: 43 • 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." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"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?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"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 CONVENTIONAL MEDICAL TREATMENT Insulin Insulin is one type of pharmacological agent used in NIDDM." - Michael Friedman, ND, Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology (Get the book.)

"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." - Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide (Get the book.)

"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: Dr." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"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." - Michael Friedman, ND, Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology (Get the book.)

"Many elements in the fight against arsenic and lead seemed to set precedents that could be used in the fights against DDT, agent orange, or other poisons. And surely the fight over DDT should have set precedents that could be used against other closely related chlorinated hydrocarbon chemicals. But the corporations and their lawyers have thus far prevailed. No resolution of this problem is possible until the nation sets a goal of mandatory pesticide reduction, as some European countries have done." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"These were the primary components of "Agent Orange" and were also found in the Love Canal clean up. The US Environmental Protection Agency report that 95% of human exposure is from eating beef, pork, chicken, milk, fish and eggs. Dioxins are water phobic, so that if present in a lake or river, they move into the fish. Fats There has been a striking change in the character of meat in the past 50 years. Meat has gone from being a good food that accumulated essential fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid from grazing, into a food that is bad for health." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"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." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"American Home Products, previously the parent company of Wyeth, producers of HRT, also manufactured toxic dioxin, containing herbicides and pesticides similar to agent orange, the long-term effects of which are still suffered by the Vietnamese people. At the end of the day, the gathering spectre of ideological oppression and global hegemony can only be challenged by people with a deter- 2 My Microsoft spell check does not recognise this word and thinks it is in a foreign language. mination to build strong communities." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"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." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"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." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"Doll's refusal to accept that any man-made chemicals can cause cancer and other serious health problems could not have been better reflected than in the testimony he gave against the Australian veterans of the Vietnam war whose health had been devastated by exposure to "Agent Orange." agent orange was a mixture of the two well-established carcinogenic herbicides 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D (the former having since been taken out of production in every country in the Western world). Produced by the Monsanto Corporation, agent orange was used as a defoliant by the U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., The Politics of Cancer Revisited (Get the book.)

"In retrospect, agent orange was a terrible chemical that destroyed a generation in Vietnam and poisoned 500,000 U.S. soldiers. The millions of Vietnamese civilians and U.S. soldiers damaged from this chemical cocktail are horrible examples of what has come to be called "collateral damage." While 2,4,5-T is no longer registered in the United States, 2,4-D still is. In the late 1940s and early 1950s the chemical corporations began pushing other highly chlorinated mixtures, the cyclodienes, which included toxaphene and the "drins" (aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, endosulfan, and endothal)." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Three major chemical warfare agents were used—Agents Orange, White and Blue. agent orange and Agent White accounted for 61 per cent and 28 per cent, respectively, of the total volume dropped. They were aimed mainly at forests. Agent Blue In this ad a soldier is promoting 2,4,6-D, claiming it cuts costs in half and uses l/5th the poison that arsenic does GET RID OF WEEDS • faster • cheaper Here is i completely new and different petroleum product that destroy* ail weed* . . , is equally effective on Wet or Dry Weedi." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Subsequently, Monsanto began manufacturing both of these chemicals and shortly thereafter made its close cousin, agent orange.4 If the public could have evaluated 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, there might have been a chance to question their CALIFORNIA • „rf%^WIN rife rbv/ BIS* chancss of winning the harvest ia early and proper planning for fight against insects and fungous ases... using the right ammunition getting it "on hand" -well in ad-ce . . ." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Yet to this day, scientists continue to monitor the Vietnam vets with the highest agent orange exposures and find they have no more medical problems than persons with no exposure.' Agent Orange, the defoliant dropped by the ton on Vietnamese villages, was produced by Monsanto and Dow, and contained dioxin, one of the most deadly chemicals known to man. Scientists, chemical companies and the American State have good reason to disguise the results of research into agent orange." - Martin J. Walker, Skewed: Psychiatric Hegemony and and the Manufacture of Mental Illness in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Gulf War Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (Get the book.) "About one scientist who argues that Gulf War Syndrome is a chemically induced condition, Fumento notes that he is 'the best-known propagator of the junk science surrounding the previous incarnation of GWS, namely agent orange. Yet to this day, scientists continue to monitor the Vietnam vets with the highest agent orange exposures and find they have no more medical problems than persons with no exposure.' Agent Orange, the defoliant dropped by the ton on Vietnamese villages, was produced by Monsanto and Dow, and contained dioxin, one of the most deadly chemicals known to man." - Martin J. Walker, Skewed: Psychiatric Hegemony and and the Manufacture of Mental Illness in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Gulf War Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (Get the book.)

"In Dogs27"ei 153 • Reports claim that Vietnam scout dogs used to detect landmines in the agent orange sprayed soil were approximately twice as likely to develop atrophy, cancer or degeneration of their testicles, as well as lowered sperm counts than non-exposed dogs.27d Malathion and the antibiotics in the tetracycline category also are reported to cause testicular atrophy and decreased sperm quality in dogs and humans.271 (See Chapter 8." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

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