STARLINK CORN FOUND IN JAPANESE BEER
In fact, genetically altered foods will enter the food chain readily, despite assurances from the industry that this will not happen. The consequences of this to the future of seed stock is unknown. 

Monsanto labeling of 2,4-D called criminally deceptive
In fact, the warnings are not 'on' the labels at all. If one is able to read "microscopic fine print", it would direct you to 'peel back' the rear label for further information... that is, as Lee suggests, if you can get it off. 

LOW DOSES OF COMMON CHEMICAL HAVE SCIENCE IN A QUANDARY
Some researchers contend there is no dose of endocrine-disrupting chemicals small enough to be safe. Detractors say this view is alarmist, absent compelling evidence of human harm and dependent on limited and flawed animal studies. 

Pesticides and Breast Cancer
Three studies that link pyrethroid pesticides and breast cancer

Seagulls are dying in Florida
Scientists are trying to figure out what killed more than 50 seagulls found on Volusia County beaches since Friday, and why another 60 sick birds have required treatment for apparent respiratory illness.

POPs Treaty to Protect Environment and Health
(The U.S. leads those nations opposing this life saving treaty.  Afraid that to many chemicals will be controlled.  This, of course would be the chemical company's position.)

Christy Whitman could be our next EPA Administrator
1997 PEER Survey of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

Pesticide Killing Birds
A pesticide used in Florida is killing thousands of birds from the Great Lakes and East Coast of the United States and putting millions more at risk.  Fenthion is sprayed over two million acres in Florida each year for mosquito control, with some areas doused every few days, year round.

Insecticide Causes Mad Cow Disease
Pharmaceutical interests in the UK are ignoring new scientific research that shows the insecticide used in the UK government's own warble-fly campaigns triggered the UK surge of 'Mad Cow' disease. 
Of greater concern is that some lotions for scabies and head lice are now priming children and adults, for CJD and Alzheimers in later life

CALENDAR OF CALAMITIES - 2000
The RAFI Revue  ("tongue-in-cheek") of the scientific, political and media disasters that struck the Agbiotech industry since the BioSafety Protocol was adopted in January.

Los Angeles County Health Department
Considers recommending Malathion for Headlice... 
(Note:  Malathion is a registered pesticide poison. Just in case there was a doubt.)

ECHOES OF VIETNAM
If dousing the Colombian countryside with herbicides is not an effective way to diminish the drug problem in the U.S., it is worth asking what drives our government's enthusiasm for this costly and destructive approach. One explanation is that the "war on drugs" is a pretext for policies that have little to do with drugs.

Untenable Choices
Neurotoxic virus or Neurotoxic Pesticide

STATEMENT FOR THE FIFRA SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL  OPEN MEETING ON STARLINK CORN  - Arlington, Virginia - November 28, 2000 -  JOHN HAGELIN, Ph.D.

In the case of genetic engineering, even greater caution is called for: a nuclear disaster only lasts 10,000 years, whereas gene pollution is forever--self-perpetuating and irreversible. The irresponsible behavior that permitted the marketing of bioengineered foods has not been limited to the scientific community, but includes the executive branch of the federal government.

Talks Agree on Global Ban on 12 Very Toxic Chemicals
The treaty must be ratified by 50 nations before it can take effect. Brooks Yeager, head of the United States delegation, said he expected the ban to be approved by the coming Congress.

12-10-00

Southern California Pest Control Company Charged With Failing to Properly Ventilate Fumigated Buildings
33 violations of state law and regulations governing the use of methyl bromide and sulfuryl fluoride (better known by its trade name, Vikane

PESTICIDES HARM CALIFORNIA AMPHIBIANS
A study by scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Department of Agriculture indicates that organophosphorus pesticides from agricultural areas, which are transported to the Sierra Nevada on prevailing summer winds (DRIFT), may be affecting populations of amphibians that breed in mountain ponds and streams.
(who else lives downstream and drinks water... children)

Don't Wait for the EPA - or Anyone
By Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.
Whatever you choose, do not take any chemical label at face value and do not wait for the EPA, or any agency, to tell you what is safe. Our lives really do depend on doing what we know in our hearts to be right - not what the label says is safe.

Negotiators Focus On "Dirty Dozen" POISONS

"We know nothing about most of the chemicals produced, and right now they are considered harmless until proven dangerous," he said. "We are being killed by our own ignorance."

Pesticide Exposure Symptoms Report
Conclusion: People with "single" non-occupational exposure to pesticides can be severely hurt by their exposure. 

PESTICIDE FOES, BACKERS SWAP FEARMONGERING CHARGES
A city official who suggested a ban on pesticide use could unleash a $20-million pest infestation in the parks system is guilty of fearmongering, say organizers of the anti-pesticide campaign. 
(This is the one where weeds are more dangerous than herbicides because a kid might trip on one.  We've heard this from schools with Insert Pesticides Monthly programs.)

Registered Pesticides in U.S. Diets
U.S. consumers can experience up to 70 daily exposures to residues of a class of toxic chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants --POPs-- through their diets, according to report released by Pesticide Action Network North America and Commonweal. 

Child's Exposure To Pesticides Hikes Lymphoma Risk
 Children who have been exposed to household insecticides and professional extermination methods within the home are three to seven times more likely to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) compared with children who have not been exposed to pesticides.  

The People's Caravan 2000 ­ Land and Food Without Poisons!
 The caravan expressed the international solidarity among farmers to resist the monopoly control of agrochemical transnational corporations (TNCs). "Just like our brothers and sisters in other countries, we, Philippines farmers are bled dry by these manufacturers of poison. They are reaping super profits at the expense of the farmers' livelihood and everybody's health," he said.  

Monsanto, US War on Drugs Poison Environment
(We are doing to South America is what we did to Vietnam with Agent Orange leaving generations of cancers, birth defects and starvation.)

Health Canada to ban pesticide  
Doctors welcome voluntary recall by maker of diazinon

Let's slow down and rethink how safe biotech food is  
The world's multinational biotech corporations are presently in an all-out, no-holds-barred war, and have cast the world's safety to the wind in exchange for their own short-term profits. By Paul Goettlich, For the Journal and Courier