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:
Nick Regush was one of the most clued in
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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
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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
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he is already in the top 100,000 sites. Quite an achievement.
However, he has retained many of his media
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