Comments on: Dow Chemical Named Top Earth Day Greenwasher http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=3510 News on pesticide science, policy and activism Thu, 16 May 2013 16:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: George Claxton http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=3510#comment-88501 George Claxton Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:05:10 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=3510#comment-88501 Isn’t interesting that almost every study that DOW does on their workers and dioxin exposure finds no health problems at all.

Contrast this information with the SEVESO, Italy studies on dioxin exposed victims. The victims had many statistically significant cancers and birth defects. The studies were done by Drs. Angela Pesatori and Pier Alberto Bertazzi.

]]> By: Rusty Kane http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=3510#comment-88490 Rusty Kane Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:01:36 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=3510#comment-88490 The New Zealand owned Dow Chemical Company Ivan Watkins Dow now Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth New Zealand.. Who manufactured and shipped the base chemicals that when mixed made the product Agent Orange for use in Veitnam in the 60s and 70s.
Also polluted the beaches and residents of New Plymouth, with their chemical products at levels as high if not higher than Vietnam blood test levels. The hypocrisy is Dow AgroSciences have resently sponsored the first Womans ASP Pro Sufing Tour held in New Zealand. The international surf competition was held on the same beaches that the Dow Chemical Plant at Paritutu had polluted at the hieght of their dirty pesticide manufacture back in the 60s and 70s. New Plymouths back beach and Fitzroy beach.
You would think the city of New Plymouth the Pro-Surfers and the organisers of the World ASP Tour would be against such sponsorship, knowing the dirty history of Dow Chemicals in their own backyard. The other hypocrisy is Dow is now selling itself as clean and green. By sponsoring people and events that are knowm to be environmentally freindly like the womans ASP world surf pro-tour and the Earth Day organised event “walk for solving the global water crisis”. Obscenely “greenwashing” their image and products at the expense of the environment they polluted and to those thousands of people around the World they knownly killed and maimed with their products.

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