CHEM/PHARM HAS
NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN! By Ashley Simmons Hotz
May 15, 2002
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
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.
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
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
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."
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
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.
