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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam clipped by: chestnut501 clippers remarks: The U.S. government and the chemical companies knew that Agent Orange, when produced rapidly at high temperatures, would contain large quantities of Dioxin. Nevertheless, the chemical companies continued to produce it in this manner. The U.S. government and the chemical companies also knew that the Bionetics Study, commissioned by the government in 1963, showed that even low levels of Dioxin produced significant deformities in unborn offspring of laboratory animals. But they suppressed that study and continued to spray Vietnam with Agent Orange. It wasn?t until the study was leaked in 1969 that the spraying of Agent Orange was discontinued. Clip Source: www.commondreams.org From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals known to man. It has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a carcinogen (causes cancer) and by the American Academy of Medicine as a teratogen (causes birth defects). Between 2.5 and 4.8 million people were exposed to Agent Orange. approximately 12 percent of the land area of Vietnam - were sprayed. An estimated 3 million Vietnamese people were killed in the war, which also claimed 58,000 American lives. For many other Vietnamese and U.S. veterans and their families, the war continues to take its toll. Our government must know that it cannot continue to use weapons that target and harm civilians. Indeed, the U.S. military is using depleted uranium in Iraq and Afghanistan, which will poison those countries for incalculable decades. Tags: war, vietnam, chemical, warfare, agent, orange, dioxin, cancer, dow, monsanto zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de