(Agent-Orange) US Army Mass Killing Weapon

(Agent-Orange) US Army Mass Killing Weapon

There is no safe dose of dioxin, no matter how small.

The agents 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D were shown to cause cancer in lab animals by themselves, without the dioxin present.

DOW chemical agreed to a temporary halt in the use of 2,4,5-T but was fighting to protect the pervasive domestic use of 2,4-D.

Dow was able to go to court and successfully fight the ban on 2,4,5-T and thus saved their lucrative sales in the American market as well as worldwide sales of both herbicides. The burden of scientific proof was successfully shifted from the manufacturer of the toxic chemicals onto the plaintiffs who were forced to prove conclusively that dioxin and the herbicides caused disease and mutation in humans.

Studies funded by industry showed 2,4,5-T without dioxin was safe while independent studies such as the Bionetics study showed that “pure” 2,4,5-T without dioxin was mutagenic.