Long live progress, long live change!
The day that a lit will put a bomb at the headquarters of Monsanto, they will not have to come to complain.
Go see this site and see for yourself the horror of the orange agent used by the American forces during the Vietnam War, products which have always been used in our campaigns (total weedkiller), good for human health all of that, how many millions of people around the world have eaten up these filth?
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When we remember the Vietnam War, we inevitably think of these American helicopters flying over jungles and rice fields asphyxiated by the still burning fumes of napalm. But the most lasting mark of the US army's "experiments" to flush out the Viet-Cong enemy, whose stigma is still visible over several generations, remains the massive use of Agent Orange.
This defoliant containing dioxin, very toxic product, was officially used by tens of millions of liters between 1961 and 1971 (surely longer in reality) during the operation "Ranch Hand" (agricultural worker), in order to destroy the forests that housed the Vietnamese guerrillas. The first intoxicated combatants and the inhabitants of the areas which underwent the spreading (the center and the south of the country) were affected by blindness, diabetes or developed cancers. Their children - we are in the third generation - are themselves suffering from congenital malformations. Not to mention the ecological disaster that promotes the stability of dioxin in the ecosystem. Hông Hoadu of the French-language daily newspaper Le Courrier du Vietnam speaks of "more than 3,3 million hectares of land, mainly forest (...) contaminated by toxic agents". "A real ecocide", according to him!
Today, after a first judgment against them in 2005, 26 Vietnamese victims hope to have their war crime complaint received on appeal to the federal court in New York. They are seeking redress for the 3 million or so victims from the 37 firms producing Agent Orange, including the seed company Monsanto and the chemical giant Dow Chemical; who defend themselves by arguing of their obligation at the time to support the war effort. But these large groups are aware that the ax can fall overnight. In 1984, to prevent a collective complaint from being filed by American veterans victims of Agent Orange, seven companies had reached an out-of-court settlement for approximately $ 200 million. A year ago, the Korean justice system had ordered Monsanto and Dow Chemical to pay tens of millions of dollars in compensation to nearly 7000 Korean veterans who fought alongside the Americans. If the appeal of the Vietnamese victims is heard, the case of Canadian, Laotian, Cambodian, Australian and Filipino veterans will have to be dealt with…
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agent Orange
"Agent Orange" is the common name for a herbicide that was used in Vietnam between 1961 and 1971, for the tactical defoliation of areas of dense vegetation consisting of dicotyledons. The use of Agent Orange was aimed at depriving the enemy of a protective plant cover that could serve as a place of camouflage and thus protect American and Allied troops against surprise attacks from the enemy. This product is actually a mixture of two chemicals, 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) and 2,4,5-T (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid). Agent Orange was mixed with diesel fuel or kerosene and was usually sprayed at an altitude of 150 feet by air. An estimated 19 million gallons of herbicides, including over 12 million gallons of Agent Orange, were used by the US Armed Forces in South Vietnam during the war.
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Dioxin TCDD is measured in picogram, that is to say in millionth of millionth of a gram (10 power -12 gram) This infinite smallness ensures great stability. In Vietnam, it is in the soil, in water, in sludge, in sediment and thus passes through the food chain. It is found in large quantities in animal fats, meats, milk, eggs and fish. Scientists have created a unit called TEQ - the toxic equivalent - to set a toxicity limit for food consumption. In France, the accepted dose per kilogram of body weight / day for a person is 1 to 4 picograms. In the United States, the accepted dose is more drastic, it is 0,0064 picogram, ie 160 times less than the French standard. In Vietnam, this dose can reach 900 picograms per kilo of body weight / day per person.
You will obviously see names such as Monsanto and Dow Chemical of great benefactors of our planet Earth
http://www.vietnam-enfants-de-tudu.com/agent_orange.htm
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