POISON FOR PROFIT CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN!
POISON FOR PROFIT CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN! -- Posted by Ilena Rose on 04-18-04 17:45
Bravo, Bravo to our valued Support Group Member, Ashley Hotz.
Hopefully this will be circulated wide and far
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From: "Ashley Hotz" :
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/storm_warnings/poison.html
POISON FOR PROFIT
CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN!
By Ashley Simmons Hotz
redflagsweekly.com
Storm Warnings
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'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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