The article below is interesting. Apparently neither Earth Justice nor the National Marine Service are aware of the presence of the pesticides chlordane and toxaphene that are in the salmon from the natural food they eat in the ocean. A study in British Columbia showed that Brown Bear that ate salmon had large quantities of these pesticides in them compared […]
Arctic Gender Balance is the title of a Living on Earth Curwood interview: http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=08-P13-00030&segmentID=1
PCB blood level of pregnant Inuit women in Greenlant correlates with the sex of their babies and when the levels get high, only girls are born.
There is no mention of infertility or stillbirths or how much chlordane and toxaphene toxcity the women […]
A recent article “Some Indians fear Green Revolution is a killer;” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/27/MN3M11LLJQ.DTL the rising incidence of cancer, increased stillbirths, and lowered sperm counts are being recognized and attributed to the use of pesticides such as toxaphene, chlordane, DDT and Lindane. These persistent organic pesticides (POPs) were brought to Asia in the mid 1960s to avert mass […]
I am frequently asked if China is receiving pesticides from manufacturers in the developed world. Most people seem to think that China has no chemical capability. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have exported much of our chemical manufacturing capability to China … in the name of eliminating emissions in the U.S. See: http://www.chinaknowledge.com/News/news-detail.aspx?id=15716&cat=TRPThey are now exporting […]
Isn’t it great to know that when you open a package of something that the material inside is the same as the material listed on the label? Not so in many parts of the world.
See http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/farming-news/Farmers-warned-to-watch-out.4281240.jp
Chinese chemicals that include banned pesticides meet up with legitimate looking pesticide containers in Russia to be sold to unsuspecting […]
