“It is difficult to get a man (*or woman) to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ~ Upton Sinclair *Cancer deaths double in Argentinas GMO agribusiness areas: theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2525411/cancer_deaths_double_in_argentinas_gmo_agribusiness_areas.html *The Little Known Toxic Travesty Of Anniston Alabama Link: honeycolony/article/the-little-known-toxic-travesty-of-anniston-alabama/#44b4bb65eb9c0aafec897da6bd6e8e5b EPA Superfund Sites Several Monsanto-owned facilities have been deemed Superfund sites by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, sites that are so contaminated or full of hazardous waste that they are placed on the National Priorities List for clean up by the EPA Superfund. Many more plants have been deemed hazardous by the EPA and have been ordered cleaned up through other means, such as litigation. Examples of such sites include: Monsanto plant in August, Georgia: Superfund-listed in 1984 for arsenic-laden waste and sludge contributing to groundwater contamination Monsanto phosphorous plant in Soda Springs, Idaho: Superfund-listed in 1990 for arsenic, cadmium, radium and other toxins Monsanto plant in Sauget, Illinois: Two super-funded sites still in clean up after initial 1982 listing; plant produced 99 percent of all PCBs in the United States Monsanto PCB plant in Anniston, Alabama: Listed under Superfund Alternative Approach in 2000 for extensive PCB contamination over six decades; city has been characterized as one of the most polluted places in America Solutla (former Monsanto) Plant in Nitro, West Virginia: Monsanto and Pharmacia entered into a Consent Order with the EPA in 2004 to perform evaluation and cleanup for release of dioxin from the 2,4,5-T (a component of Agent Orange) manufacturing plant over a 20-year period. GMO FREE MOLOKAI, Akaku Molokai, Ban Open Air GMO Test Crops From Hawaii, Citizens Against the Imaginary farming ban., Friends of Lanai, Free Lanai, Maui Clean Air , The MOM hui - Maui Chapter, Vote YES on Maui GMO Moratorium, Occupy Monsanto Maui {from now on}, Maui Tomorrow
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