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[2017 March] Monsanto Isn’t Feeding the World—It’s Killing Our Children  The report says pesticides have “catastrophic impacts on the environment, human health and society as a whole”, including an estimated 200,000 deaths a year from acute poisoning. Its authors said: “It is time to create a global process to transition toward safer and healthier food and agricultural production.”

The Poison Papers  The “Poison Papers” represent a vast trove of rediscovered chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back to the 1920s. Taken as a whole, the papers show that both industry and regulators understood the extraordinary toxicity of many chemical products and worked together to conceal this information from the public and the press. These papers will transform our understanding of the hazards posed by certain chemicals on the market and the fraudulence of some of the regulatory processes relied upon to protect human health and the environment. 
    They disclose EPA meeting minutes of a secret high level dioxins working group that admitted dioxins are extraordinarily poisonous chemicals. The internal minutes contradict the Agency’s longstanding refusal to regulate dioxins or set legal limits. Collusion— They demonstrate EPA collusion with the pulp and paper industry to “suppress, modify, or delay” the results of the congressionally-mandated National Dioxin Study, which found high levels of dioxins in everyday products, such as baby diapers and coffee filters, as well as pulp and paper mill effluents.  They provide important new data on the infamous Industrial Bio-Test (IBT) scandal. By the late 1970s, it was known that more than 800 safety studies performed by IBT on 140 chemicals produced by 38 chemical manufacturers were nonexistent, fraudulent, or invalid. The Poison Papers, however, show that EPA and its Canadian counterpart, the Health Protection Branch (HPB), colluded with pesticide manufacturers, to keep invalidly registered products on the market and covered up problems with many IBT tests. Cover-up—  The papers also show that EPA staff had evidence that this IBT scandal involved more independent testing companies and more products than ever officially acknowledged.  Concealment— The papers show that EPA concealed and falsely discredited its own studies finding high levels of dioxin — 2,3,7,8-TCDD — in environmental samples and human breast milk following routine use of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T (Agent Orange) by the federal Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.  Intent— They show Monsanto chief medical officer George Roush admitted under oath to knowing that Monsanto studies into the health effects of dioxins on workers were written up untruthfully for the scientific literature such as to obscure health effects. These fraudulent studies were heavily relied upon by EPA to avoid regulating dioxin. They also were relied upon to defend manufacturers in lawsuits brought by veterans claiming damages from exposure to Agent Orange.

[2013] Pesticide Free Farming

[2016 Nov] Circle of Poison

[2016 Sept] Circle of Poison documentary highlights the deadly impact of the global pesticide industry  Even after certain highly toxic pesticides get been banned for use in the US, they can still be produced here, "for export only." This pro-business double standard not only endangers the lives of millions around the world, but can then also come back to haunt us in the form of imported foods.

[pdf 2016] REPORT from Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Villages regarding Dengue-Zika, microcephaly, and mass-spraying with chemical poisons  Zika virus

[2013] Government bee scientist behind controversial study joins pesticide firm

[2005] Pesticides the Root Cause of Birth Defects in Farmworkers

[2012 Feb] Court Rules Monsanto Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France  The case involved Paul Francois, a cereal farmer who said that after inhaling Monsanto's Lasso weedkiller (which has since been banned in France) in 2004, he suffered neurological problems including memory loss, headaches and stammering. He blamed Monsanto for not providing adequate warnings on the product label.

[2012 Oct] Parkinson's Disease Linked to Exposure to Pesticides

[2011 July] U.S. Soldiers ‘Sprayed Agent Orange Across Korea’  “We were told, ‘It’s totally safe and it won’t hurt you at all,’” he added. “We were told, ‘You can drink it, you can brush your teeth with it, or you can bathe in it. It won’t hurt you. Those were lies.”

[2011 June] Are you eating pesticides? Canola oil, soybean oil used as key ingredients in pesticide products  common cooking oils such as canola oil and soybean oil are used as key active ingredients in pesticide products because they work so effectively to kill bugs. The video shows how one pesticide product that kills insects is made with 96% canola oil and is so dangerous that the label says, "Hazards to humans and domestic animals."

[2010 Feb] Serious birth defects linked to the agricultural chemical atrazine

[2010 Feb] Cancer and pesticides: victims fight for justice

[2009 Aug] Roundup: Popular herbicide more deadly to liver cells than its active chemical alone

[2006] CASE STUDY: campaigning against pesticides

Britain, 1912 to 1963 Pesticides and Polio by Jim West

Incinerator deaths by Dr Dick van Steenis

[2004] Cinnamon Oil Kills Mosquitoes Better Than DEET

Top 10 Lies About West Nile Virus and Anvil by Robert Lederman

Sir Richard Doll: Death, Dioxin and PVC by Martin Walker MA  [pdf)]

Poisoning The Earth For Profit - DDT, A Vaccine For Mosquitoes? by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

ARTICLES BY LINDA AND BILL ON AIRCRAFT  PESTICIDE SPRAYING (from 1993 to 2001)

Pesticide/Herbicide exposure as an infant and in school causes chemical sensitivity--- Diana Buckland

PROPERTIES OF ORGANOPHOSPHATES---JOANNA WHEATLEY  

Organophosphate Poisoning----Helen Fullerton, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D     whale  

TOXIC OVERLOAD: BLOOD DISORDERS AND CANCERS RESULTING FROM EXPOSURE TO DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND RADIATION by Edward Priestley

[2006] Pesticides exposure associated with parkinson's disease

[2006] Pesticide Use Increases Chance of Parkinson's in Men

[2009 pdf] USMVP’s Petition to Secretary Shinseki. Re: Petition for Presumptive Service-Connection for Parkinson’s disease due to herbicide exposures  exposures to herbicides used in Vietnam have a positive association with Parkinson’s disease in exposed Veterans.

The Organophosphate-BSE Hypothesis and CJD----Joanna Wheatley, Harold Hillman

[JUNE 2005] HUMAN PESTICIDE EXPERIMENTS. PREPARED FOR SEN. BARBARA BOXER AND REP. HENRY A. WAXMAN
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM – MINORITY STAFF

http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20050617123506-17998.pdf

[1999] "Hidden Sources of Fluoride - Pesticides"

ORGANOPHOSPHORUS PESTICIDE EXPOSURE OF URBAN AND SUBURBAN PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL DIETS

[1952] The Poison Cause of Poliomyelitis And Obstructions To Its Investigation. Statement prepared for the Select Committee to Investigate the Use of Chemicals in Food Products, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.---Ralph R. Scobey, M.D.

[1954] Is Human Poliomyelitis Caused By An Exogenous Virus? by Ralph R. Scobey, M.D.

[1952] The Poison Cause of Poliomyelitis And Obstructions To Its Investigation by Ralph R. Scobey, M.D.

[1951] Is The Public Health Law Responsible For The Poliomyelitis Mystery? Ralph R. Scobey, M.D.

[1950] Statement On Clinical Intoxication From DDT And  Other New Insecticides Presented before the Select Committee to Investigate the Use of Chemicals in Food Products, United States House of Representatives, U.S. December 12, 1950 by Morton S. Biskind, M.D.

[1949] DDT Poisoning A New Syndrome With Neuropsychiatric Manifestations by Morton S. Biskind, M.D. and Irving Bieber, M.D.

[2001] DDT: An Issue of Property Rights