TRADE SECRETS

I don't know how many folks got a chance to watch the Bill Moyers' PBS program on Monday night. Earthshaking comes to mind. A terrible and inhuman history of the chemical industry's failure to protect the health of its workers and the public. And using the industry's own documents in the indictment too.

What amazes me is not one word about the program or its contents was reported in a major media outlet such as CNN or other major news outlets. So the coverup continues, the unwillingness to confront powerful vested interests in the name of truth telling. I am ashamed.

For those of you who want to know, there is a very good site which tracks chemical and other elements affected health and safety:

http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/news012601a.htm

Give the site a look and be worried.

Marsh

Yes, I saw it, too. We live in an area where the chemical industry is one of the main employers. My husband left the industry about 10 years ago because he knew the risks involved if he continued working in the refineries. It's been hard, financially, but some things just aren't worth dying for, or at least that is our belief.

It was an excellent program with a message that needs to be shouted from the rooftops.

Paula

I'm really sorry I missed that program. I did take a look at the site, Marshall, and saw the long list of coverups by different companies. This is the perfect example of why I have a hard time believing that all GE crops are safe and will not have a negative impact on human health. History has shown that we have been lied to about many things. It's not until much later, when serious medical problems surface, that we really learn the truth that was hidden from us. :(

Terri

The thing that is the most outrageous is that the chemical industries pay for the testing. These are supposed to be unbiased, honest test results?

DUH!

And yet, this is common practice, and the agencies that make the final determinations regarding how safe a product is, use the companys' own test results.

And we allow this practice to continue.......

Go to your local library. See if they have a copy of "Fast Food Nation" author Schlosser or something close to it if you want a look at how giant corporations control our food and even working conditions.

NBC Today Show interviewer Bill Moyers the morning the show aired. The seemed to be on his side after they got to watch the preview.

I was abosultly horrofied by the show and I was even more sicken by the industry spokesmen after the show ended. And with Bush running the country we can expect things to get a whole lot worse before they get better as he is known to be on the chemical company side of things.

Hopefully this will open enough eyes of the population to start changing this industry for the better. perhaps enough folks will realize the corps run our gov't and this is against everything our constitution stands for and that the corpoartion can be disenfranchized by the public it serves.

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Several people around here watched it and were gald to here someone say what they have been saying for years. We live about 30 minutes from Love Canal in Niagara Falls. I used to teach at a high school overlooking the FMC plant where DDT was created. Greed is a powerful thing.