Poison For Profit - Chem/Pharma Has No Equal - What A Business Plan!

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> [sSRI-Research] POISON FOR PROFIT-

> CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN!

>

> POISON FOR PROFIT

>

> CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN!

>

>

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/storm_warnings/poison.html

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> By Ashley Simmons Hotz

>

> May 15, 2002 - 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 " 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'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:

>

http://www1.dupont.com/NASApp/dupontcom/jsp/products/products/productsMain.jsp

>

>

> 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. For

> some listings of its pharmaceuticals:

>

http://www.astrazeneca.com/mainnav1/s_products/s_prod_brands/c_prod_list/index.h\

tml

>

>

> 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 giat BASF:

>

http://www.basf.com/static/OpenMarket/Xcelerate/Preview_cid-974236855115_pubid-9\

74236850984_c-Article.html

>

>

> 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

> soluable pesticides are even impregnated into animal

> feed (fat soluable 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:

>

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_99/40cfr186_99.html

>

>

> 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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