On 07-03-97  00:52, Jane Kelley typed to Ty Meissner
  regarding: => Bill White <=
 Hello Jane,
 TM>      The ONE already identified toxin that has caused more brain damage
 TM>      including the kind that leads to social pathology and criminal
 TM>      behavior isn't even a high tech toxin; it's LEAD.
 JK> THAT I knew about....which is why paints changed and so did our
 JK> gasoline to exclude lead.  I am certain that there are high levels in
 JK> some folks if we would only test for them.
       There is a VAST amount of lead all around us - much more than most
       of us think.   And we are paying the price in high crime rates and
       low production.
       But what the hey, its just the cost of doing (corporate) business.
       And anyone who watches TV knows that petrochemical companies
       ("people do") are the SAVIOURS of our environment.  Its sad when
       some of the minds who are teaching our children buy this line of
       horsepuckey.
       Its time we put a stop to having K-12 environmental curiculea
       designed by chemical industry PR people.
      From Peter Monatague's RACHEL# 553 newsletter:
      "An eye-opening new book describes the nearly-complete failure of all
      our attempts to regulate the behavior of the chemical corporations.
      TOXIC DECEPTION, by Dan Fagin and Marianne Lavelle,[1] is subtitled
      "How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law, and
      Endangers Your Health."  In his day job, Dan Fagin writes for NEWSDAY
      (the Long Island newspaper) and Marianne Lavelle writes for the
      NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL.  Both are award-winning investigative
      reporters, and this book shows why: it is thorough and
      thoroughly-documented, even-handed, careful in its conclusions, and
      absolutely astonishing in how grim a picture it paints of our
      corporatized democracy.  Even those of us who study
      chemicals-and-health full-time have never put all the pieces together
      the way these two have."
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 TM>      But since these mass murderers (many of whom also sit on the boards
 TM>      of international tobacco companies) are all rich white men, we 
on't
 TM>      talk about it.
 JK> Long since past time we did.  And, some of them are rich, white women.
      Since this is also the same small crowd that owns the major TV and
      radio broadcast networks and newspaper chains.   Look at what
      happened to Gary Webb, author of the Dark Alliance series exposing
      the CIA's role in Contra drug smuggling operations.   He got demoted
      and tranferred to a rural bureau.
      We are decieving ourselves if we think that govt. agencies like the
      FDA are really protecting our health.   The FDA has successfully
      created the false perception that it is protecting us.   It allows
      toxins in our food production that should not be allowed at all.
      And it just plain IGNORES 90% of the chemicals in wide use, and only
      looks at those chenicals that industry wants it to look at.
      The reason we all should go out of our way to eat organic foods is to
      avoid accumulating the toxins contained in commercial foods.
      I'm lucky to live in an area where local organic farmers make a wide
      selection of produce available, year round.  I still buy tropicals,
      mostly from Mexico, but I wash them well with soap before using.
      I'm lucky, too, that I didn't have to eat toxic commercial foods
      while my body was at that crucial deveopmental phase, the first 10
      years.   Organic foods were the order of the day in the 30s and 40s.
      The chemical industry didn't begin to mushroom to its current size
      until WW II.
      Carcinogenesis is a very slow and lenghty process, typically
      involving decades in humans, according to a leading oncologist.
      And thus the effects of accumulations of subclinical amounts of
      endotoxins would not likely become apparent in a lesser span of time.
      We (and our children) will be paying the price for industrialists'
      greed for many generations to come (if we're lucky).  If we're not so
      lucky there won't be that many more generations of us.
      Ty
	 Ty Meissner	E-MAIL: Ty.meissner@grape.net
     I will sleep and dream like the air, and move like the wind, with 
assion
     when it pleases me.  The Universe is not up there... Its here, and we're
     in it, third rock out from the sun.   --  Peter Spiro
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