Hypocritical Smoke: The Scandal of Medical Waste Incineration. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)The middle-class Foxboro subdivision in North Salt Lake City, Utah, is, in many ways, an idyllic community for young families - new, modest, similarly sized homes on fairly compact lots, close by neighbors connected by sidewalks and streetlights, tons of playmates for all the kids. And Mormon communities have lots of kids, munchkins if you will. Foxboro has a "Polyanna" feel to it, not unlike a Mormon "Land of Oz. " But a dark cloud hangs over Foxboro, sometimes literally. On a recent Friday evening in late summer, Foxboro was having a neighborhood 5K run/walk for the hundreds of families that live in the area. Suddenly, it looked like the Wicked Witch of the West had arrived: thick black smoke and flames billowed from a well-known industrial neighbor right next to the subdivision. Children became frightened. Watching the video, one really expects to hear the Wicked Witch cackle, "I'll get you and your little dog, too.
" Notes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Arsenic in Your Food | Consumer Reports Investigation. Jay Highman, the CEO and president of Nature’s One, an Ohio company that made the nation’s first organic baby formula, says he was concerned when a study published in February implicated his formula as containing arsenic. The problem: organic brown rice syrup, one of the ingredients. “We had always been known for having the highest standards for the cleanest, purest ingredients, and overnight we became a poster child for arsenic in rice,” Highman says. He resolved that he would find a way to eliminate arsenic contamination in the rice syrup. Highman searched for the purest source for rice and found that he had to go outside of the U.S. to find rice with the lowest possible arsenic content.
He declined to disclose his source for fear larger companies “will start devouring our supply chain.” He worked with his syrup supplier to develop a filtration process that would eliminate detectable levels of arsenic. Etats-Unis: les autorités accusées de laisser utiliser des pesticides à risque. Get the Lead Out. Read a recent statement from 30 scientists, doctors and public-health experts from Harvard, Cornell, Rutgers and other universities about the "overwhelming evidence for the toxic effects of lead in humans and wildlife" and their support for getting the lead out of ammo. Lead is an extremely toxic element that we’ve sensibly removed from water pipes, gasoline, paint and other sources dangerous to people. Yet toxic lead is still entering the food chain through widespread use of lead hunting ammunition and fishing tackle, poisoning wildlife and even threatening human health.
At least 75 wild bird species in the United States are poisoned by spent lead ammunition, including bald eagles, golden eagles, ravens and endangered California condors. Thousands of cranes, ducks, swans, loons, geese and other waterfowl ingest spent lead shot or lead fishing sinkers lost in lakes and rivers each year, often with deadly consequences. Lead ammunition also poses health risks to people. How Americans Became Exposed to Biohazards in the Greatest Uncontrolled Experiment Ever Launched. (Image: Smoke stacks via Shutterstock)We need your help to sustain grassroots, groundbreaking journalism.
Make a tax-deductible contribution to Truthout now by clicking here. A hidden epidemic is poisoning America. The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them. We can’t escape it in our cars. It’s in cities and suburbs. It afflicts rich and poor, young and old. The culprit behind this silent killer is lead. Today, we are all unwitting subjects in the largest set of drug trials ever. How Industrial Toxins Entered the American Home The story of how Americans became unwitting test subjects began more than a century ago. Soon thereafter, children exposed to lead paint and lead dust in their homes were also identified as victims of this deadly neurotoxin.
Unfortunately, when it came to the creation of America’s chemical soup, the lead industry was hardly alone. The Largest Uncontrolled Experiment in History.