Carcinogenic Dioxin Set Free: EPA Kneels to Monsanto and Big Agriculture

Dioxin is the most toxic man-made chemical known regarding damage to health and the environment. The EPA has withheld a study about dioxin for decades in order to protect large industries that produce dioxin while manufacturing herbicides and pesticides, plastics, chlorine, bleach, and other chemicals. In addition, industrialized agriculture (Big Ag) has pressured the EPA to withhold the report because dioxin becomes concentrated in animal products like meat, eggs and dairy. The non-cancer portion of the EPA report is due out by the end of January 2012, with the cancer portion to follow at some unspecified date. Dioxin is an umbrella term for a class of super toxic chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, liver disease, immune system damage and many other health problems. There is no safe 'threshold' dose as our bodies have zero defense against dioxin, according to health consultant Jonathan Campbell. Dioxin has a half life of over 100 years in the environment when it is below the surface or dumped in waterways....read more>>>...