Jenkins
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA (Book)
by E.G. Vallianatos, McKay Jenkins (Book)
March 3, 2014
https://www.amazon.com
https://www.amazon.co.uk
Page 93: " Could there be a connection between crib death
and pesticides? Botulinum toxin occurs in nature, but like the man-made
parathion, it is an asphyxiating nerve poison that can choke a human being just
as it can an insect. Organophosphate sprays, like parathion, combine with other
toxic chemicals to form synergistic super-poisons. Even minute amounts of
parathion could become monstrously toxic in the presence of minute amounts of
botulinum toxin. There maybe something in some infants' intestines that triggers
the lethal reaction. Tiny capsules of parathion in the honey and other foods
infants eat could be that trigger. Parathion alone could also do the job.
Botulinum spores are everywhere in the environment, and in
most cases they are harmless. But they have also been connected to sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS), which kills as many as ten thousand American infants
every year. Botulinum spores create toxin-inducing bacteria in the intestines of
infants, and these bacteria give off the deadly clostridium that kills the
infant by respiratory arrest. In other words, botulinum acts like parathion or
other nerve poisons. Thus an infant with any nerve pesticide in his/her stomach
might face death not merely because of the toxic power of parathion alone but
from the botulinum spores lying dormant in the stomach as well. The two poisons
interact with deadly effects. It may be that the parathion molecules activate
the botulinum spores."
Jenkins
“The EPA has been turned into an agency that rubber-stamps what industry wants. And you can’t have a healthy population and a healthy environment when industry does what it wants. Industry does not self-regulate; it just does not.”