Sell the Pain, Sell the Pills, Sell the dirty water

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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.

 

ttp://www.aventis.com/main/0,1003,EN-XX-100---,FF.html

 

 

Aventis " crop sciences " include herbicides,

fungicides, pesticides and genetically engineered

food.

 

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

 

 

Aventis Pharma is the pharmaceutical division:

 

ttp://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:

 

ttp://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:

 

ttp://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:

 

ttp://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:

 

ttp://www1.dupont.com/NASApp/dupontcom/jsp/products/products/productsa

in.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:

 

ttp://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.ht

 

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:

 

ttp://www.astrazeneca.com/mainnav1/s_products/s_prod_brands/c_prod_lit

/index.html

 

 

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).

 

ttp://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.

 

ttp://www.amvac-

hemical.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:

 

ttp://www.basf.com/static/OpenMarket/Xcelerate/Preview_cid-

74236855115_pubid-974236850984_c-Article.html

 

 

See paragraph nine:

 

ttp://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:

 

ttp://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!

[Guest guest]

So what should we do?

 

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Chinese Medicine , " ykcul_ritsym "

<ykcul_ritsym> wrote:

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

>

> 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.

>

> ttp://www.aventis.com/main/0,1003,EN-XX-100---,FF.html

>

>

> Aventis " crop sciences " include herbicides,

> fungicides, pesticides and genetically engineered

> food.

>

> ttp://www.cropscience.aventis.com/products/products.htm

>

>

> Aventis Pharma is the pharmaceutical division:

>

> ttp://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:

>

> ttp://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:

>

> ttp://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:

>

> ttp://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:

>

> ttp://www1.dupont.com/NASApp/dupontcom/jsp/products/products/productsa

> in.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:

>

> ttp://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.ht

>

> 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:

>

> ttp://www.astrazeneca.com/mainnav1/s_products/s_prod_brands/c_prod_lit

> /index.html

>

>

> 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).

>

> ttp://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.

>

> ttp://www.amvac-

> hemical.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:

>

> ttp://www.basf.com/static/OpenMarket/Xcelerate/Preview_cid-

> 74236855115_pubid-974236850984_c-Article.html

>

>

> See paragraph nine:

>

> ttp://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:

>

> ttp://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!

[Guest guest]

Maybe what we should not do will be the eventual solution. I wonder if anything

can be done, but for my spirit's sake I want to try. Practically, for oneself

or as group/buisness/ state/nation/global policy;

1. Adopt universal bill of human rights

2. Stop production of all known environmental toxins and fund and find

alternatives where possible.

3. Elect vision minded 'leaders' (if needed)who care about the future.

These would empower and equalize human family and install a responsible goal

to industrial endeavors and enterprenuership.

4. Failing these changes, have a world strike or sit-down until requests are

met. This may seem extreme, but world famine, mass extinction and pandemics

won't be any more pleasant for most either.

What do others think?

< wrote:

So what should we do?

 

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