Tag Archives: poison
Glyphosate damages soil as well as poisoning enviroment
“Anything you put on the land affects the chemistry and biology of the land, and that’s a powerful pesticide,” Iowa farmer Dennis Von Arb said. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/business/misgivings-about-how-a-weed-killer-affects-the-soil.html?ref=us His neighbor grows “traited,” or biotech, corn and soy on some 1,500 acres and estimates that his yield would fall by 20 percent if he switched to conventional […]
Ammonia spill from Chinese factory kills thousands of fish
Thousands of dead fish floating along a 19-mile stretch of a river in Hubei Province in central China were killed by pollutants emitted by a local chemical plant, provincial environmental officials said Wednesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/world/asia/thousands-of-fish-killed-by-waste-from-chinese-plant.html?ref=world Environmental protection officials said tests on water taken from the Fu River upstream from the metropolis of Wuhan revealed that extremely […]
Poisoning the impoverished with free food program
There have been violent protests in the Indian state of Bihar after 22 children died and dozens more fell sick after eating a tainted free school meal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23342003 A doctor at the local hospital said a chemical used in pesticides was likely to be the cause of the contamination. The Mid-Day Meal Scheme provides free […]
UK sprays aerial poison on forest
Birds, bats and rare insects were affected by UK Forestry Commission aerial sprays to kill a moth larvae. It was the first aerial spraying of its kind in the UK and was considered more effective than ground treatments as the caterpillars are attracted to leaves at the top of the trees, the Forestry Commission said. […]
Portland votes no again on water fluoridation
Despite the recommendation of “public health experts”, voters in Portland, Ore., defeated a measure on Tuesday to add fluoride to the water supply by a 60-to-40 percent margin. The result marks the fourth time since 1956 that Portland has rejected fluoridation efforts, and means the city will continue to be the largest metropolitan area in […]
Radiation leak in WA compounded by sequester
Six newly confirmed leaking tanks of radioactive waste was added evidence that even after decades of work and billions of dollars in taxpayer sacrifice, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s risks remain unresolved. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/us/struggling-hanford-site-awaits-new-cuts.html?ref=us Plutonium production for the nation’s bomb arsenal was elevated to industrial scale for years in the rolling scrub country of south-central Washington and […]
Dirty Babylon 