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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