U.S. Senator And Others Fully Doused With Roundup
"On the very first flyover by the cropduster, the U.S. Senator, the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, the Lieutenant Colonel of the Colombian National Police, and other Embassy and congressional staffers were fully doused -- drenched, in fact -- with the sticky, possibly dangerous (herbicide) Roundup.
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Subject: U.S. Senator And Others Fully Doused With Roundup...........
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:24:59 -0400
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of
California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker,
I thought you might find these articles interesting, they are found at:
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/military/featured/2001/monsanto.html
"On the very first flyover by the cropduster, the U.S.
Senator, the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, the Lieutenant Colonel of the
Colombian National Police, and other Embassy and congressional staffers were
fully doused -- drenched, in fact -- with the sticky, possibly dangerous
(herbicide) Roundup.""Imagine what is happening when a high-level
congressional delegation is not present," Farrell noted, pointing out that
careful preparation had gone into the botched flyover. Wellstone left Colombia
completely unconvinced by the Embassy."
"Last January, during a meeting with U.S. Embassy
staff in Bogotá, the top officer at the State Department's Narcotics Affairs
Section was emphatic and his tone threatening: "You cannot mention
Monsanto!" he boomed, spit flying from his mouth. CorpWatch was a little
taken aback, but also very amused: Monsanto is a major part of the Colombia
story, and there is no way to ignore it."
"Dutch journalist Marjon Van Royen ... found something alarming: another additive called Cosmo-Flux 411 F was being added to increase Roundup's toxicity. The Roundup/Cosmo-Flux mixture has never been scientifically evaluated nor has the public, either in the U.S., or in Colombia, been informed of this practice."
Another piece of the puzzle is found at:
http://www.corpwatch.org/news/2001/0138.html
"The chemical, based on the compound glyphosate, is manufactured by the US Monsanto Corporation using British ingredients, hexitan esters, supplied by ICI Specialty Chemicals, and liquid isoparafins manufactured by Exxon. It damages the human digestive system, the central nervous system, the lungs and the blood's red corpuscles. Another constituent causes cancer in animals and damage to the liver and kidneys of humans. The villagers' fears about the chemicals appear to be well founded. The World Health Organization has found that glyphosate is easily transmitted to humans through foods such as raspberries, lettuces, carrots and barley - with traces of the chemical found in crops sown a whole year after the soil had been dosed with it. Elsa Nivía, a Colombian agronomist who works with the Pesticide Action Network, ridicules the US government's claims that Roundup Ultra is safe and no more poisonous than aspirin or table salt. She has written that in the first two months of this year local authorities have reported 4,289 humans suffering skin or gastric disorders while 178,377 creatures were killed by the spraying including cattle, horses, pigs, dogs, ducks, hens and fish."
Well Mr. Helliker, I thought that it was against the federal "law" to compare any of your "registered" POISONS with food products like aspirin or table salt and/or to state that even the labeled use of any "registered" POISON was "safe". Obviously the above drenching is not an incident of labeled use and if you have allowed another unknown toxin to be added to the POISON to increase the toxicity of the "registered" glyphosate then obviously this total POISON compound is not "registered/tested", and no one can honestly predict how "safe" or dangerous this type of misuse and/or the entire toxin is to people and the environment. Once again we see that terrible attitude that "what we do not know will not hurt us"....wink, wink. The known human and animal health price for two months of spraying is incredible. Someday, "someone" may be indicted for war crimes.
Respectfully, Stephen L. TvedtenIf you would like to be included in our mailing list for continuing information on pesticides, Email Us. with "subscribe" in the subject line.