Dioxin Contamination

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" JoAnn Guest " <angelprincessjo

Wed Sep 18, 2002 10:36 am

Dioxin Contamination

 

 

 

 

By Robert Cohen Executive Director

 

Dioxins in milk and meat causes a panic in Belgium. America

takes minimal precautions.

 

BELGIUM PANICS

 

It might have been a scene from a pre-nuclear war screenplay

or the worst case scenario from somebody's Y2K nightmare.

What actually happened in Belgium? There was a panic.

Supermarket shelves were emptied and curfews were declared.

Citizens of Belgium discovered last month that milk, dairy

products, and meat were not safe to eat.

 

DIOXIN CONTAMINATION - A SCAPEGOAT

 

Contaminated fats used to supplement animal feeds were

implicated (but not proven) as being the cause of June's

European catastrophe. A few months earlier, the World

Health Organization announced that 90% of dioxins that

humans take into their bodies come from milk, dairy

products, and meat. Last week, a story out of Britain

revealed that mothers who nurse their infants have up to 50

times the safe level of dioxins in their breast milk.

 

Blaming high dioxin levels on one tainted batch of animal

feed is the easy solution to a potentially explosive

problem. What would happen if the world's supply of milk

and meat were declared to be carcinogenic, severely tainted

by industrial wastes such as dioxins and PCBs

(polychlorinated biphenyls)? Finding a scapegoat for the

dioxin scare is merely a simple Band-Aid for what might be a

growing systemic cancer.

 

FDA'S AMERICAN SOLUTION

 

The Food and Drug Administration ordered that all milk

products from Belgium be detained at American ports of

entry. FDA's announcement placed the responsibility of

testing on importers of food.

 

WHAT'S GOING ON?

 

Why doesn't FDA test the food? Why must food importers

conduct the testing? Is any agency in the United States

routinely testing American food for dioxins? Is the

potential bad news answer something we'd rather not know?

 

THE FOOD CHAIN

 

The higher up an animal is on the food chain, the higher the

concentration of dioxins in its flesh and body fluids.

 

Rabbits eat plants after dioxins from the air find their way

onto leaves and roots. If a hunter traps and eats a rabbit,

that animal flesh will contain the concentration of many

meals worth of dioxins. If the hunter becomes a vegetarian,

his intake of dioxins will not be as high as the dioxin

intake of his fellow meat eaters.

 

The average American eats 6 ounces of meat every day and

29.2 ounces of milk and dairy products.

 

You are what you eat. One pound of steak might contain a

thousand times more dioxins than one pound of salad greens.

This should be food for thought, particularly for nursing

mothers.

 

 

 

 

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Robert Cohen author of: MILK - The Deadly Poison

(201-871-5871)

Executive Director (notmilkman)

Dairy Education Board

http://www.notmilk.com

 

 

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