CHAPTER 14 WHO IS WHO IN THE CHEMICAL (POISON) “INDUSTRY” The first fact the poison “industry” does not tell you (or wants you to know) is that pest populations are generally only about 3% of the total insect and arachnid populations in your field or yard — the other 97% are basically beneficials, so why kill them with their broad-spectrum poisons? “The principle of the least toxic alternative looks toward the day when the availability of safer choices makes the deliberate and routine release of chemical carcinogens into the environment as unthinkable as the practice of slavery.” — Sandra Steingraber, “Living Downstream.” Robert Louis Stevenson once noted: “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” Arabian Proverb He who knows not and knows not that he knows not He is a fool - shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple - teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, He is asleep - wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, He is wise; follow him The Author’s Mother always used to say “If you want a helping hand - you will find one at the end of each of your arms.” If you want to protect yourself - you must look to yourself - not to the poison “industry’ or the “regulators” or the politicians or the “banksters” to “protect” you. Rachel Carson lived for only 18 months after finishing “Silent Spring,” but before she died from the breast cancer given her from the poison “industry” she had to hear their damnable lies, ridicule and invectives against her and her courage in publishing her research on the dangers of their poisons. History has proven her right. 633 CHAPTER 14 WHO IS WHO IN THE POISON “INDUSTRY” - with malice aforethought . “The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person, called the corporation. They differ in the purpose in which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act. Man is the handiwork of God and was placed upon Earth to carry out a Divine purpose. The corporation is the handiwork of man and was created to carry out a money-making policy. There is comparatively little difference in the strength of men. A corporation may be one hundred, one thousand, or even one million times stronger than the average man. Man acts under the restraints of conscience, and is influenced also by a belief in the future life. A corporation has no soul and cares nothing about the hereafter.”—William Jennings Bryan “They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor be excommunicate - for they have no souls” — Sir Edward Coke, Case of Sutton’s Hospital “Quad nesciunt eos non interficiet” — “What they don’t know won’t kill them.” Corporations have given us “jobs” and with the “jobs”...Chernobyl, Bhopal, Hanford and the Love Canal! “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people” — John F. Kennedy “Before I begin this chapter, let me reemphasize one point - these materials and conclusions are my opinions - the poison “industry” will obviously disagree with me - it is up to you to decide if some typo, error, statistic and/or correction totally negates the bulk of this or any other work that clearly shows these corporations are working against human interest and the common good.” — SLT “Quaere verum.” — “Seek the truth.” “Virtus tentamine gandit” or “Strength rejoices in the challenge.” “Imprimus” (or In the first place) - volatile, “registered,” synthetic pesticide poisons are the largest group of poisonous substances purposefully being added or disseminated throughout our environment. For only a little over 50 years, have organophosphate and carbamate poisons even been available, yet they now are basically universal contaminants. The February 3, 1998 Michigan State University Extension, Crop Advisory Team, Alert, Landscape Edition noted: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA had targeted organophosphate insecticides for review under the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) in 1998. In 1999 EPA will focus on carbamate insecticides and on fungicides in 2000. The effect of FQPA legislation may mean that many of these volatile, synthetic pesticide poisons will no longer be available for use in this country. All of the major poison producers are also in the “health”/ pharmaceutical business too - so as you become poisoned/polluted and sicken and begin to die from their allopathic poisons - they will sell you allopathic drugs to “survive”. Yet the pests for which these poisons are used to control not only survive, but thrive because we have created immune or resistent species and have killed their natural enemies with their poisons. These makers of poisons are not “guardians” of the environment. They are the destroyers of the environment - they are not in the “chemical or health” industry - they are in the death or poison “industry”! Between 1989 and 1995 the poison “industry” poured $20 million dollars into Congressional campaigns - please read Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law, and Endangers Your Health. The truth is simply not in these producers of poison; when I started in pest control 35 years ago, Velsicol, the producer of many cancer-causing chemicals, e.g., chlordane/heptachlor, ran advertisements - stating these poisons were so safe you did not need gloves or a respirator. I believed Velsicol and used their poisons and I ended up nearly dying. Only detoxification and G-d’s mercy restored me so I could tell you what I know. (Ezek. 38:23). Even on 5/17/97 when the Velsicol Chemical Corporation finally announced it is permanently ceasing production of their cancer-causing chemicals chlordane and heptachlor and will not make its proprietary technology available to any other company for manufacture - the company still stated it’s products have been used for protection! “We (Velsicol) have always believed in the efficiency of these products, and thescience that supports their continued use, but the economics no longer support continued manufacture.” So, do not believe any of their lies! It is too bad you cannot put a corporation 634 in jail or even make it (the Mamzers) tell the truth! Today the poison industry and the regulators are still telling us to only look at the registered active ingredient and totally ignore all of the unregistered inert ingredients, metabolites, contaminants, impurities, transformation and decomposition toxins, synergistic effects...all of which are basically untested, or at best partially tested, but then only tested individually by their own laboratories. The entire toxic brew is untested, unregulated and, I believe, unregistered and extremely dangerous. In addition, these poisons don’t even control their targeted pests and must be continually applied in greater and greater amounts until the entire earth has become contaminated. Second of all, “registered,” synthetic pesticide poisons can contaminate for many, many years after their use - on Sunday, March 15, 1998 an article by David Poulson, The Grand Rapids Press Lansing Bureau, noted: ST. LOUIS - It took $38.5 million in 1982 to bury from sight and mind the environmental catastrophe created when Velsicol Chemical Co. inadvertently mixed the flame retardant PBB with a cattle feed supplement. More than 31,000 head of contaminated cattle were slaughtered after the accident that brought Michigan international notoriety for nearly a decade. Agreeing to state and federal demands, Velsicol paid the unprecedented settlement, buried its factory and left the state. But the uproar over the PBB may have masked an even greater threat to the people and wildlife living downstream from the plant on the banks of the Pine River. In the 1940s and ‘50s the factory also produced DDT, a”registered” insecticide poison so dangerous that its use was banned in 1972. Scientists say that the river bottom and fish there now contain the highest levels of DDT ever recorded in the Great Lakes region-and perhaps the nation. Although they knew that tons of DDT and other chemicals contaminated the river bottom, state and federal officials agreed in 1982 not to force Velsicol to clean them up. They thought clean soils would eventually cover and seal them off. They were wrong. “I think you’ve got a pretty bad situation out there,” said Matthew Williams, a U. S. Environmental Protection Agency expert on contaminated sediment in the Great Lakes region. “I am not trying to cause a panic, I’m just saying these (contamination levels) are pretty high.” Last year, almost all of the fish analyzed near the plant site contained DDT far exceeding federal human health guidelines. Since 1974, a 30-mile stretch of the river has had the state’s only consumption advisory driven by DDT. The advice is unusually harsh: Don’t eat any fish of any size. The St. Louis City dam retains the bulk of contaminated sediments, but DDT has been found in fish 40 miles away, in the Tittabawassee River. On March 31, EPA officials will ask their national review panel to approve dredging the Pine River of its toxic load. The plan cost taxpayers of $30 million or more. George Harvell, Velsicol’s environmental services manager, said the Rosement, ILL.-based company is aware of the proposal. In separate phone interviews, Harvell and communications manager, Jennifer Bullock, last week referred questions to Chuck Hansen, vice president of environmental health and safety. Hansen never responded. Local residents are torn between joy that the river may finally be cleaned, and suspicion that they were sold out in 1982 by a government anxious to get the PBB crisis of that nation’s front pages.