Poison for Profit - What A Business Plan!

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Poison for Profit - What A Business Plan!

 

 

By Ashley Simmons Hotz

 

The huge transnational companies that produce toxic

chemicals found in pesticides, herbicides and

industrial and household products profit not only from

the sale of these products, but also from the symptoms

and chronic illnesses that they can trigger.

 

The vast majority of chemicals found in pesticides and

other products, undergo little or no testing for

chronic, low level exposures and for chronic health

effects.

 

The same chemical companies that produce toxic

chemicals also produce prescription drugs, veterinary

medicines, a wide array of medical products and

imaging technologies, hold cancer treatment and

medical device patents, and a produce a staggering

assortment of over-the-counter palliatives.

 

Families with toxin induced illnesses often spend

large sums for drugs and medical treatment.

 

This circle of profit is not conspiracy theory, but an

easily provable fact.

 

Below are chem/pharm web sites for the largest

companies in the world. There you can see quickly and

clearly that these companies profit from all sides of

the picture.

 

Aventis was launched in December 1999 through the

merger of Hoechst AG of Germany and Rhône-Poulenc SA

of France. Main Home Page for Aventis -- go to top

right and click on " Aventis Worldwide " to see medical,

agrochemical and pharmaceutical categories of

business. http://www.aventis.com/main/0,1003,EN-XX-100

-- -,FF.html

 

Aventis is the wonderful company that brought us Star

Link genetically modified corn.

 

Aventis " crop sciences " include herbicides,

fungicides, pesticides and genetically engineered

food.

http://www.cropscience.aventis.com/products/products.htm

 

Aventis Pharma is the pharmaceutical division:

 

http://www.aventis.com/main/0,1003,EN-XX-24770-37160

-- ,FF.html

 

Monsanto is owned by Pharmacia. The Pharmacia

Corporation was created through the merger of

Pharmacia Upjohn with Monsanto Company and its G.D.

Searle unit. Pharmacia employs 59,000 people worldwide

and has research, manufacturing and administrative

sales operations in more than 60 countries.

 

Monsanto:

http://www.monsanto.com

 

Pharmacia:

http://www.pharmacia.com/About/Index.asp

 

BASF-fungicides, herbicides, pesticides:

 

http://www.basf.de/en/produkte/gesundheit/pflanzen/products/

 

BASF - pharmaceuticals:

http://www.basf.de/en/produkte/gesundheit/nahrung/

 

Merck is known widely as a pharmaceutical company:

http://www.merck.com

 

Merck Research Company; Applications to Register

Pesticide:

 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/1996/July/Day-10/pr-796.html

 

Merck produces chemicals and precursors for pesticides

and other neurotoxins.

 

Merck Chemicals for Industrial Applications -

Listed in alphabetical order:

http://www.merck-ti.de/tabelle/cia_tabelle.htm

 

" Our broad range of Chemicals for Industrial

Applications is widely used in many fields of

production within the chemical and technical

industries. " http://www.merck-ti.de/set_cia.html

 

Dow Chemical produces both toxic chemicals and

pharmaceuticals. (Click on the drop-down list here):

http://www.dow.com/products_services/index.html

 

Dow Pharmaceuticals:

http://www.dowpharm.com

 

Dow's pesticide products include the organophosphate

pesticide Dursban (a/k/a Chlorpyrifos/a/k/a RAID a/k/a

Lorsban and is found in about 800 other pesticide

products). Dursban was to be phased out and banned

from indoor, yard and garden use last year because of

what it does to the developing brain.

 

EPA was going to allow Dursban to " continue to be sold

until current stocks run out " but Dow has been

scrambling to get this delayed, and has been

conducting short term clinical trials by feeding

Dursban pills to healthy teenagers in an attempt to

get it back on the market:

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020422/poisons.html

 

Dupont Chemical recently sold a pharmaceutical

division to Bristol Myers Squibb. Dupont makes

pesticides and drugs:

http://www.dupontpharma.com

 

Here is a list of other chemicals and neurotoxins

that they produce.

 

Do you take Bayer aspirin? Did you know that Bayer

also makes other drugs, pesticides, chemicals? When

you get to the Bayer site from the following URL, go

to the " application " search engine and scroll down to

pesticides. At the first URL here, go to the right

side and click on the drop-down list to see the

spectrum of products -- for industrial chemicals and

" crop protection " products, to pharmaceuticals.

http://www.bayer.com/en/index_en.php

 

Bayer pharmaceuticals:

http://www.pharma.bayer.com

 

It is interesting to note that the Bayer corporation

was originally the I.G. Farben Company with deep ties

to the Nazis during the 1920s and 30s. I.G. Farben

produced Zyklon-B gas which was used in the Nazi death

camps. Other big chem/pharm manufacturers became

owners of pieces of I.G. Farben during the lengthy

process of dissolving its assets after decades of

lawsuits and pressures from international

organizations for alleged I.G.Farben Nazi crimes. Here

is a quote from the BBC:

 

" Most of the company's assets were confiscated

after World War II and were transferred to four big

German corporations: Bayer, Hoechst, Agfa and BASF. "

 

See BBC article:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1549000/1549092.stm

 

Many of these huge transnationals have merged with

each other. For example, CibaGeigy, Sandoz and other

multinational chemical/pharmaceutical companies merged

to become Novartis. Then Novartis Agribusiness merged

with Zeneca (Astra-Zeneca) Agrochemicals to form

Syngenta:

http://www.syngenta.com/en/syngenta/facts.asp

 

Standard and Poor's Stock Exchange profile on

Novartis:

 

http://www.advisorinsight.com/pub/maccess/nyse/nvtsy_66987v_profile.htm

 

Novartis pharmaceuticals, seeds, genetic

engineering:

http://www.novartis.com

 

Novartis owns Syngenta -- produces pesticides,

herbicides, etc:

http://www.syngenta-us.com

 

Novartis AG -- incredible list of products,

relationships and subsidiaries:

http://www.transnationale.org/fiches/70.htm

 

Then there is Astra Zeneca that sold off part of its

agrochemical business to Novartis. AstraZeneca.

Listings of its pharmaceuticals.

 

Mergers Acquisitions & Spin-Offs in the Chemicals

Industry 1998 - 2001:

http://www.icem.org/events/BKK/chem/ma.html

 

AMVAC makes the insecticide NALED a/k/a DIBROM, and

nineteen other products. AMVAC Chemical Company is

owned by American Vanguard Corporation, which makes

herbicides, pesticides.

 

A major portion of its revenues comes from selling its

specialty chemicals to the pharmaceutical industry. It

is also in the business of " environmental remediation "

and " toxic waste management. " (Like other chem/pharm

companies, American Vanguard profits from pollution

that they help make, and then get paid to clean up).

http://www.thestandard.com/companies/dossier/0,1922,271462,00.html

 

AMVAC's brother subsidiaries include, GemChem, Inc.

and Environmental Mediation, Inc.

 

AMVAC's brother GemChem: " ... committed to exceeding

industry standards as a national chemical distributor.

In addition to representing AMVAC as its domestic

sales force, GemChem also sells into the cosmetic,

nutritional and pharmaceutical markets. "

 

AMVAC's brother Environmental Mediation, Inc. provides

clients with: " complex investigative and remedial

activities. With... core expertise in the areas of

hazardous waste, air toxics, and water quality... "

 

Environmental Mediation, Inc. offers its clients

expertise in:

 

* Issue Analysis

* Strategic Planning

* Government Relations

* Regulatory Strategy

* Environmental Consulting

* Public Affairs

 

American Home Products pharmaceuticals and veterinary

medicines has subsidiaries galore, including American

Cyanimid among others. American Cyanimid produced many

chemical products including pesticides and

pharmaceutical chemicals.

http://www.amvac-chemical.com/investor_page/Subsidiaries/subsidiaries.htm

AHP later changed its name to WYETH, a major holding

company: http://www.wyeth.com

 

American Home Products was gobbled up by the

chem/pharm giant BASF.

 

See paragraph nine:

 

http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/ppigb/company.htm

 

And this just shows the cycle of profit in all of its

glory when you see the Chemical Business Research

website -- Click on: " Code " C4 " : Cancer Opportunities

in the New Millennium "

http://ecom.sric.sri.com/CBRD/Public/Staff/

 

Did you know that thousands of toxic chemicals are

impregnated into products that we come in intimate

contact with every day that have woefully inadequate

testing? Synthetic chemicals are found in clothing,

furniture, bedding, paper, food storage containers,

building materials, pillow feathers, pillow covers,

inks, mattresses, food, cosmetics, carbonless paper,

fragrances, and tampons. A wide variety of fat soluble

pesticides are even impregnated into animal feed (fat

soluble means it stores in fat).

 

One of the reasons this is done is to cut down on

flies in the barnyard. The fecal matter becomes so

toxic that it ends up killing the flies! So the

questions is -- does the animal fat cause us to get

dosed with low levels of this stuff? See EPA web site.

 

Most of the public is completely unaware of how

pervasive toxic chemicals are in our homes and

offices. If it were just one or two of the chemicals

-- the effects might be tolerable. But that is not the

case at all because the relentless cumulative and

synergistic effects of these chemicals is causing

great harm to human, animal and environmental health.

 

When we, our children and our animals suffer symptoms

or become ill, have trouble with our reproductive

systems -- we spend many thousands of dollars on

medical imaging, tests, treatments, operations,

hospitals and drugs... a circle of profit that has no

equal in the corporate world. Again this year - the

chemical/pharmaceutical industry was declared the most

profitable industry in the world.

 

What a business plan!

 

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Dr. Mercola's Comment:

 

Nicholas Regush was one of the most clued in reporters

when he worked for ABC News. After ten years at ABC

News, he turned to developing his own website, in hope

of advancing the cause of free expression in

journalism. He feels today that television news has

become a shell of what it once was and that the future

of news is on the Web.

 

This article is a great example of the wonderful

resources he is compiling and uncovering on his site.

These links make the connections quite clear on how

pervasive the drug companies influence is and how your

health is the least of their concerns.

 

Nick has done an absolutely amazing job on his web

site. It has only been up for six months and he is

already in the top 100,000 sites. Quite an

achievement.

 

However, he has retained many of his media network

contacts and plans on using them to help transform the

health news coverage of the system. Since we both

share similar passions we have agreed to work on

collaborative efforts in the future.

 

His newsletter is one that I definitely review and if

your plate is not full already you should consider

subscribing to keep updated.

 

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