FLASH UPDATE - Saturday, February 4, 2014
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 1:59 pm
FLASH UPDATE
http://agentorangezone.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
It's Not Just Your Daddy's Agent Orange Now
DEAR EDITOR:
The ''F.da,'' aka FDA, which is supposed to be the watchdog on duty looking out for the health and well-being of its people, has once again followed its nose to the money of chemical companies.
It makes it obvious who is really holding the leash on approval here. The FDA is cowering at the feet of Monsanto approving Agent Orange chemicals to be sprayed liberally on its newest food crops. We need to bite back.
We do not want any more chemicals in or on our food without our knowledge, period. Where are the ''pit bulls'' that used to work in the FDA? Get involved with Label It Ohio, and know what is in your food.
We should not have to be detectives to know what is in our food. Label GMOs.
Robin Liddle
Southington,
Mahoning Valley Ohio
http://tribune-chronicle.com/page/conte ... l?nav=5017
Why We Need to Keep ‘Agent Orange’ GMO Crops Off Our Farms
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-foo ... our-farms/
Have you heard of superweeds? For years, Monsanto has been selling genetically engineered (GE) or GMO corn and soybeans that promote the use of an herbicide called Roundup. Evolution is happening, and now weeds are becoming resistant to Monsanto’s killer.
Dow Chemical thinks they have the solution – new GE corn and soybeans genetically engineered to survive an even more toxic herbicide called 2,4-D. But big profits for Dow Chemical is bad news for the rest of us!
Agent Orange was sprayed aerially by U.S. planes in Vietnam to destroy the country’s forests and agricultural lands. The veterans and civilians exposed to Agent Orange experienced extreme health complications – a range of cancers and birth defects have been linked to exposure to the toxic chemical. The Vietnamese Red Cross estimates nearly 1 million people have experienced health problems as a result of the use of Agent Orange.[1]
READ MORE:2,4-D was a major component of the chemical defoliant known as Agent Orange
Once Upon a Mine: The Legacy of Uranium on the Navajo Nation
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-A44/
On a low, windswept rise at the southeastern edge of the Navajo Nation, Jackie Bell-Jefferson prepares to move her family from their home for a temporary stay that could last up to seven years. A mound of uranium-laden waste the size of several football fields, covered with a thin veneer of gravel, dominates the view from her front door. After many years of living next to the contamination and a litany of health problems she believes it caused, Bell-Jefferson and several other local families will have to vacate their homes for a third round of cleanup efforts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Decades of uranium mining have dotted the landscape across the Navajo Nation with piles of contaminated mine waste. The EPA has mapped 521 abandoned uranium mines on the reservation, ranging from small holes dug by a single prospector into the side of a mesa to large commercial mining operations.1 The Navajo people did not have a word for “radioactivity” when mining outfits looking for vanadium2 and uranium3 began moving onto their land in the 1940s, and they did not understand that radiation could be dangerous. They were not told that the men who worked in the mines were breathing carcinogenic radon gas and showering in radioactive water, nor that the women washing their husbands’ work clothes could spread radionuclides to the rest of the family’s laundry.
Bell-Jefferson and her brother Peterson Bell played in and around the mines, splashing and swimming in pools of radioactive water that had been pumped out of the mines and then collected on their property. The contaminated water looked and tasted perfectly clean. Families used it for cooking, drinking, and cleaning. Hogans and corrals were built with mine wastes, as were roads.
All that changed on 16 July 1979. Just about a mile and a half from Bell-Jefferson’s home, a dam broke at the United Nuclear Corporation mill, where workers processed ore from the nearby Northeast Church Rock uranium mine. The spill dumped 94 million gallons of mill process effluent and 1,100 tons of tailings—an acidic, radioactive sludge—into a large arroyo that emptied into the Puerco River.4
The Church Rock spill occurred less than four months after the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, and it released three times as much radiation, making it the biggest nuclear spill in U.S. history, yet it received only a tiny fraction of the news coverage.5 Declared a Superfund site in 1983, the heaps of waste around the mill still cause radiation survey instruments to squeal from the invisible uranium atoms that remain active 30 years later.6
READ MORE: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-A44/
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Are You on the Ship List?
http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposure ... t/list.asp
Agent Orange: Alphabetized Ships List
If your vessel is not included in the Mobile Riverine Force, ISF Division 93 or listed designations (see "Find Your Ship"), check the alphabetized list of ships below.
To search for your ship, look under the first letter of the formal ship name. For example, if your ship's name is USS Dennis J. Buckley, look under the letter "D" for Dennis.
Ships will be regularly added to the list based on information confirmed in official records of ship operations. Currently there are 308 ships on this list. Ship not on the list and you think it should be?
Questions about your eligibility for disability compensation? Contact your nearest VA benefits office.
Agent Orange: Alphabetized Ships List
If your vessel is not included in the Mobile Riverine Force, ISF Division 93 or listed designations (see "Find Your Ship"), check the alphabetized list of ships below.
To search for your ship, look under the first letter of the formal ship name. For example, if your ship's name is USS Dennis J. Buckley, look under the letter "D" for Dennis.
Ships will be regularly added to the list based on information confirmed in official records of ship operations. Currently there are 308 ships on this list. Ship not on the list and you think it should be?
Questions about your eligibility for disability compensation? Contact your nearest VA benefits office.
- See more at: http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposure ... 1VmMx.dpuf
READ MORE: http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposure ... t/list.asp
http://agentorangezone.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
It's Not Just Your Daddy's Agent Orange Now
DEAR EDITOR:
The ''F.da,'' aka FDA, which is supposed to be the watchdog on duty looking out for the health and well-being of its people, has once again followed its nose to the money of chemical companies.
It makes it obvious who is really holding the leash on approval here. The FDA is cowering at the feet of Monsanto approving Agent Orange chemicals to be sprayed liberally on its newest food crops. We need to bite back.
We do not want any more chemicals in or on our food without our knowledge, period. Where are the ''pit bulls'' that used to work in the FDA? Get involved with Label It Ohio, and know what is in your food.
We should not have to be detectives to know what is in our food. Label GMOs.
Robin Liddle
Southington,
Mahoning Valley Ohio
http://tribune-chronicle.com/page/conte ... l?nav=5017
Why We Need to Keep ‘Agent Orange’ GMO Crops Off Our Farms
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-foo ... our-farms/
Have you heard of superweeds? For years, Monsanto has been selling genetically engineered (GE) or GMO corn and soybeans that promote the use of an herbicide called Roundup. Evolution is happening, and now weeds are becoming resistant to Monsanto’s killer.
Dow Chemical thinks they have the solution – new GE corn and soybeans genetically engineered to survive an even more toxic herbicide called 2,4-D. But big profits for Dow Chemical is bad news for the rest of us!
Agent Orange was sprayed aerially by U.S. planes in Vietnam to destroy the country’s forests and agricultural lands. The veterans and civilians exposed to Agent Orange experienced extreme health complications – a range of cancers and birth defects have been linked to exposure to the toxic chemical. The Vietnamese Red Cross estimates nearly 1 million people have experienced health problems as a result of the use of Agent Orange.[1]
READ MORE:2,4-D was a major component of the chemical defoliant known as Agent Orange
Once Upon a Mine: The Legacy of Uranium on the Navajo Nation
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-A44/
On a low, windswept rise at the southeastern edge of the Navajo Nation, Jackie Bell-Jefferson prepares to move her family from their home for a temporary stay that could last up to seven years. A mound of uranium-laden waste the size of several football fields, covered with a thin veneer of gravel, dominates the view from her front door. After many years of living next to the contamination and a litany of health problems she believes it caused, Bell-Jefferson and several other local families will have to vacate their homes for a third round of cleanup efforts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Decades of uranium mining have dotted the landscape across the Navajo Nation with piles of contaminated mine waste. The EPA has mapped 521 abandoned uranium mines on the reservation, ranging from small holes dug by a single prospector into the side of a mesa to large commercial mining operations.1 The Navajo people did not have a word for “radioactivity” when mining outfits looking for vanadium2 and uranium3 began moving onto their land in the 1940s, and they did not understand that radiation could be dangerous. They were not told that the men who worked in the mines were breathing carcinogenic radon gas and showering in radioactive water, nor that the women washing their husbands’ work clothes could spread radionuclides to the rest of the family’s laundry.
Bell-Jefferson and her brother Peterson Bell played in and around the mines, splashing and swimming in pools of radioactive water that had been pumped out of the mines and then collected on their property. The contaminated water looked and tasted perfectly clean. Families used it for cooking, drinking, and cleaning. Hogans and corrals were built with mine wastes, as were roads.
All that changed on 16 July 1979. Just about a mile and a half from Bell-Jefferson’s home, a dam broke at the United Nuclear Corporation mill, where workers processed ore from the nearby Northeast Church Rock uranium mine. The spill dumped 94 million gallons of mill process effluent and 1,100 tons of tailings—an acidic, radioactive sludge—into a large arroyo that emptied into the Puerco River.4
The Church Rock spill occurred less than four months after the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, and it released three times as much radiation, making it the biggest nuclear spill in U.S. history, yet it received only a tiny fraction of the news coverage.5 Declared a Superfund site in 1983, the heaps of waste around the mill still cause radiation survey instruments to squeal from the invisible uranium atoms that remain active 30 years later.6
READ MORE: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-A44/
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Are You on the Ship List?
http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposure ... t/list.asp
Agent Orange: Alphabetized Ships List
If your vessel is not included in the Mobile Riverine Force, ISF Division 93 or listed designations (see "Find Your Ship"), check the alphabetized list of ships below.
To search for your ship, look under the first letter of the formal ship name. For example, if your ship's name is USS Dennis J. Buckley, look under the letter "D" for Dennis.
Ships will be regularly added to the list based on information confirmed in official records of ship operations. Currently there are 308 ships on this list. Ship not on the list and you think it should be?
Questions about your eligibility for disability compensation? Contact your nearest VA benefits office.
Agent Orange: Alphabetized Ships List
If your vessel is not included in the Mobile Riverine Force, ISF Division 93 or listed designations (see "Find Your Ship"), check the alphabetized list of ships below.
To search for your ship, look under the first letter of the formal ship name. For example, if your ship's name is USS Dennis J. Buckley, look under the letter "D" for Dennis.
Ships will be regularly added to the list based on information confirmed in official records of ship operations. Currently there are 308 ships on this list. Ship not on the list and you think it should be?
Questions about your eligibility for disability compensation? Contact your nearest VA benefits office.
- See more at: http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposure ... 1VmMx.dpuf
READ MORE: http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposure ... t/list.asp