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POISON FOR PROFIT
CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN!
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 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:
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.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).
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-974236850984_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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