Made this Graphic earlier today, November 2. It is from the talk you can listen to here by Vandana Shiva, around minute 24.
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David Bronner explains his concerns about Agent Orange chemicals now being considered to destroy the effects of Super weeds in this video. The Super weeds are caused by the use of Monsanto's Round product. A No Vote gives further confidence to Monsanto that they can have their way with American Agriculture. Support for Monsanto and its Biotechnology is the the near official US policy.
David Bronner, President of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap, speaking at the National Heirloom Expo 2013, September 11, 2013
Please listen to David Bronner Video...
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LET's TURN IT AROUND
Michael Bronner, holds up the YES on 522 Dr. Bronner Magic Soap Bottle at the March Against Monsanto, October 12, 2013 in Balboa Park, CA.
These are words on the Dr. Bronner Magic Soap Bottle:
Genetic Engineering=More Pesticides=More profits for chemical companies. Chemical Companies Genetically Engineer DNA from bacteria into food crops to either produce or tolerate the pesticides they sell. These foreign DNA produces foreign proteins in every cell of the plant that we eat in our food. No long term independent Safety studies have been performed on adverse health effects. Overuse of pesticide is creating resistant super weeds and superbugs and more pesticide is bought and sprayed. Now chemical companies like Monsanto and Dow are engineering resistance in food crops to much more toxic weed killers like Dicamba and 2.4.D, the main ingredient in Agent Orange.
Tanya and Jenna Mack's Experience as Victims of Agent Orange
Tanya Mack, the daughter of an Vietnam Veteran exposed to Agent Orange, has had a life of surgeries that came from inheriting the ill effects of some of the same chemical pesticides that are now being considered to attempt to destroy the super weeds produced by use of Monsanto's Round Up.The damage caused to agriculture is huge and prevailing. Look beyond the No on 522 Ads in Washington State to see the harm that can be caused when we imagine GMO's are safe. In all honesty, I want more than Labeling, but I will leave it to the Eaters to decide what they want to eat. One way or another, we will reject GMO foods, so spend away Grocery Manufacturing Association. YES on 522 in Washington State is a good place to further turn the tide. We can all help now through making phone calls that support Labeling. It is a start, a good start.--Your Enchanted Gardener, Leslie Goldman, Plant Your Dream Blog
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Second and Third Generation Children of Vietnam Veterans Stricken Gather
By Marty Webster
VVAW AGENT ORANGE WORK CONTINUES
(Photo)
Miss Teen California and 3rd
Generation Agent Orange victim
Jenna Mac and Marty Webster.
On April 14-16, seven Agent Orange generational Victims from around the United States gathered in Canfield, Ohio for three days of a power packed and emotionally charged collaboration and brainstorming session. They were meeting to form a new group, created for the children of Vietnam Veterans by children of Vietnam Veterans. Among the attendees were a retired Mental Health worker and an Agent Orange Victim suffering from over 25 unexplained illnesses, the founder of the Daughters of Vietnam Veterans (DOVV), a daughter of an affected Agent Orange victim, and a women born without her arm who was the subject of Japanese photographer Goro Nakamaura's 1982 photographs chronicling Agent Orange devastation in the US and in Vietnam. Also attending was a Professor of English and Creative Writing at The University of Arizona, born with Agent Orange-related birth defects. The host of the event Heather Bowser is a long time activist for second and third generational victims of Agent Orange. Heather is also a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who was born with multiple Agent Orange related birth defects.
Perhaps the most moving aspect of the meeting was Tanya and her daughter Jenna Mack's participation. She is from California, a daughter of a Vietnam Veteran who has been stricken with a potentially fatal form of cancer which costs $12,000 per month for a life sustaining medication. Her daughter, Jenna Mack, is a third generation victim of Agent Orange. This lovely young woman is a beauty queen and the current Miss Teen California. Jenna carries the mutation within her body. She lives with the thought that it is probably only a matter of time until it becomes active. She has evidence already which the doctors are watching very closely. From her platform at beauty pageants, she teaches others how Agent Orange has affected her life. She shared her crown with me and I was visibly moved. I feel that whatever befalls her in life she will always be wearing that crown.
The new group will be called Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance (COVVHA). Marty Webster, National Coordinator of VVAW and a core member of VAORRC (Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign) also attended this meeting and has been asked to mentor this group and to help facilitate the early stages of its formation.
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=2015&print=yes
NEW ORGANIZATION FORMS
http://covvha.net
FIRST PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG ON TANYA MACK LISTS MANY ABNORMALITIES TO EXPOSURE TO SOME OF THE SAME CHEMICALS NOW GOING TO KILL SUPERWEEDS
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CHEMICAL INGREDIENTS TO BE USED TO KILL SUPERWEEDS:GENERATED BY ROUND UP GLYSOPHATE INEFFECTIVENESS WERE USED IN AGENT ORANGE, AN HERBICIDE THAT CONTINUES TO HARM GENERATIONS LATER
Dicamba:
DICAMBA BY CAROLINE COX
Each year in the United States, about 15 million acres of corn, 1.5 million acres of wheat,1 and 3 million lawns2 are treated with the herbicide dicamba. While its name is of- ten not commonly recognized, this wide use, together with concerns about its toxicology and its effects on our environment, make it important to scrutinize dicamba’s hazards.
Carcinogenicity
A recent (1992) study of farmers by the National Cancer Institute found that expo- sure to dicamba approximately doubled the farmers’ risk of contracting the cancer non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma two decades after expo- sure.28
Two potentially carcinogenic contaminants of dicamba increase concerns about cancer. The contaminant 2,7-dichlorodibenzo-p-di- oxin29 is not as potent a carcinogen as its no- torious chemical cousin 2,3,7,8-TCDD, but it has caused leukemia and lymphoma, liver cancer, and cancer of the circulatory system in a 1979 study of male mice conducted by the National Toxicology Program. (No sig- nificant increases in cancer were found in fe- male mice or rats of either sex.)30 Dicamba’s dimethylamine salt can be contaminated with dimethylnitrosamine, small amounts of which cause cancer in laboratory animals.31
Figure 6
Dicamba-contaminated Ground Water in the United States
States in black are those in which dicamba-contaminated groundwater has been reported.
Sources: U.S. EPA. Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. 1992. Pesticides in ground water database: A compilation of monitoring studies: 1971-1991. National summary. Washington, D.C. (September.) Idaho Division of Environmental Quality. 1992. Pesticide concentrations in ground water from laboratory analyses, as of March 1992. Unpublished raw data. Boise ID: Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare. U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Geological Survey. 1992. Multiple station analyses for pesticides in ground water samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington. Unpublished raw data. Tacoma, WA. Oregon Health Division. 1993. Nitrates and organic chemicals found in La Pine area drinking water wells, October 1993. Press release. Oregon Human Resources News. Portland, OR. (October 5.)
Domagalski, J.L. and N.M. Dubrovsky. 1992. Pesticide residues in ground water of the San Joaquin Valley, California.J. Hydrol. 130:299-338.
Dicamba-contaminated groundwater has been found in 17 states, including all of the Pacific Northwest states.
Although dicamba has been registered for use in the U.S. for almost 30 years, only inadequate laboratory tests of dicamba’s abil- ity to cause cancer have been submitted to EPA.29 The quality of some of the tests ap- pears to be seriously lacking. For example, one test was judged inadequate because “ tu- mors were removed periodically.”18
Human Exposure
Humans are exposed to dicamba while they or their neighbors are using the herbicide in the yard or garden, while using it on the job, through drinking of contaminated water, and through eating contaminated food. The re- sult is that large numbers of Americans are contaminated with dicamba. An EPA-funded study found that 1.4 percent of the sample population had dicamba residues in their urine. While this is a small percentage, it means that 2.3 million Americans are con- taminated with dicamba.32
http://www.pesticide.org/get-the-facts/pesticide-factsheets/factsheets/dicamba
2.4.D:
Agent Orange Ready Corn
Dow AgroScience’s variety of corn up for USDA approval, DAS-40278-9, is resistant to ACCase inhibitor herbicides (including quizalofop, which is not registered for use on corn) as well as 2,4-D. The chemical 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) once made up half of the herbicide mix known as Agent Orange. Corn with 2,4-D resistance could be dangerous to eat because a metabolite of 2,4-D is known to cause skin sores, liver damage and sometimes death in animals. 2,4-D is a potential endocrine disruptor and can affect development. Rats exposed to 2,4-D exhibited depressed thyroid hormone levels, which can affect normal metabolism and brain functioning. Studies found that men who applied 2,4-D had lower sperm counts and more sperm abnormalities than those unexposed to the herbicide.In the 15 years since herbicide-resistant crops were first introduced, weeds already have become resistant to herbicides affiliated with genetically engineered crops. In particular, application of Monsanto’s Roundup has spawned glyphosate-resistant weeds, a problem that is driving farmers to apply older, more toxic herbicides and to reduce conservation tilling to combat weeds. Now, to treat the problem of glyphosate-resistant weeds, biotechnology companies are simply creating crops resistant to a variety of chemicals.
Not only is 2,4-D dangerous for human health, but it also spurs weed resistance. According to the International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds, there have been 29 weeds found to be resistant to 2,4-D’s family of synthetic auxin herbicides. It is only a matter of time before Dow stacks this variety with glyphosate-resistance, which could lead to situations where Roundup and 2,4-D are sprayed on the same crop.
The chemical treadmill model cannot be continued indefinitely. Weed resistance to these chemicals will continue to abound and the application of more noxious herbicides will increase exponentially. This new corn variety is not only unsafe and inefficient, but it is a completely unsustainable solution to the broader problem of high-input production agriculture and associated environmental pressures.
Unsafe to Eat
Although FDA considers Dow’s 2,4-D corn, “as safe as conventional corn varieties…and not materially different” from corn currently grown and marketed in the United States, the FDA’s Biotechnology Consultation Note for 2,4-D-resistant corn lists several amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals that differed from conventional corn and were statistically significant, including glutamic acid, oleic acid, vitamin C and zinc.A description of differences without data showing that these differences are “safe” is inadequate, especially when scientists from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research suggest that “following 2,4-D treatment, 2,4-D tolerant plants may not be acceptable for human consumption.”
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/genetically-engineered-foods/24-d-corn/
INTERESTING TAKES ON I-522
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November 1, 2013
HOW ABOUTA PETITION FOR SUPPORTING WASHINGTON STATE?
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SUPERWEED VIDEO FROM FOOD & WATER WATCH
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