Dioxins

[valley ranch]

Vuktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian presidential candidate poisoned by dioxin, 2004.

It originates as a byproduct of the deliberately accelerated manufacture of the weed killer 2,4,5-T. It acts on humans by altering the transcription of specific genes. And the results aren’t pretty.
Often, when we are talking about the long-term impacts of Agent Orange on human health and the environment, we are actually talking about dioxin. Specifically, the 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD),which was an unnecessary contaminant in the 2,4,5-T component of Agent Orange, and several of the other herbicides (Pink, Purple, and Green). Therefore, it is important to have clarity on two terms used throughout this website:

Agent Orange — (aka Herbicide Orange) was one of a class of color-coded herbicides that US forces sprayed over the rural landscape in Vietnam to kill trees, shrubs and food crops over large areas. Agent Orange was a 50/50 mixture of two individual herbicides, 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. It remained toxic over a short period—a scale of days or weeks—and then degraded. The production of Agent Orange was halted in the 1970s, existing stocks were destroyed and it is no longer used. Production of the 2,4,5-T component of Agent Orange was also halted in the 1980s in most countries. However, 2,4-D is still produced by Dow Agroscience and is a common component of over 70 products, including Scott’s Weed and Feed, Miracle-Grow Weed and Feed, Weed B Gone and many others.

http://www.agentorangerecord.com/information/what_is_dioxin/

 

[valley ranch]

Linda Birnbaum (former EPA Toxicology Division Director) explains dioxin's impact on human health in a 2004 interview.

 

[catjac1975]

All I know is that when I was in school we had 36 kids in a class sitting quietly and learning in neat little rows. No one ran around the room, yelled at and hit teachers. Yes, culture has change and everything is the teacher's fault. But our food is treated with all sorts of neurotoxins and a soup of many poisons. This is what happens when big business rules and profit is more important than food safety.

 

[dickiebird]

Several years ago the dioxin SCARE was around the St Louis area. A contractor had sprayed dioxin tainted oil on horse arenas and dirt roads.
One small town, Times Beach, ended up being bought out by the Federal "gubnet" and leveled since all it's roads were gravel and had been sprayed multiple times with dioxin tainted oil
All the arenas were scraped clean of the tainted earth and large pole buildings were erected to hold the dirt.
Eventually all the dirt was relocated to the former city of Times Beach. There it was treated and deposited over the site of the former town.
Grass and trees were planted and POOFF, the tainted site became a park, you can go there today and have a picnic, watch wild life or just do your thing.
To me this says maybe dioxin isn't soooo bad after all.
Oh, and by the way all these large pole barns now house horses and other live stock.

THANX RICH

 

[valley ranch]

Yes, I read about Time Beach.

 

[valley ranch]

They remove the soil until no dioxin was present. Quite a job.

 

[catjac1975]

Several years ago the dioxin SCARE was around the St Louis area. A contractor had sprayed dioxin tainted oil on horse arenas and dirt roads.
One small town, Times Beach, ended up being bought out by the Federal "gubnet" and leveled since all it's roads were gravel and had been sprayed multiple times with dioxin tainted oil
All the arenas were scraped clean of the tainted earth and large pole buildings were erected to hold the dirt.
Eventually all the dirt was relocated to the former city of Times Beach. There it was treated and deposited over the site of the former town.
Grass and trees were planted and POOFF, the tainted site became a park, you can go there today and have a picnic, watch wild life or just do your thing.
To me this says maybe dioxin isn't soooo bad after all.
Oh, and by the way all these large pole barns now house horses and other live stock.

THANX RICH

I don't understand how your conclusion is that dioxin isn't so bad.

 

[dickiebird]

I came to my conclusion from the fact that they redeposited all the soil, that was so badly tainted, right back on the same ground they removed it from and, added more from other areas, and now the place is a park where you can go and throw a blanket on the ground and picnic right off all that dioxin laced dirt.

THANX RICH

 

[bobm]

I came to my conclusion from the fact that they redeposited all the soil, that was so badly tainted, right back on the same ground they removed it from and, added more from other areas, and now the place is a park where you can go and throw a blanket on the ground and picnic right off all that dioxin laced dirt.

THANX RICH

YUP !!!

 

[valley ranch]

They did not redeposit the soil. They incinerated it, as shown in the video.

INCINERATED.
in·cin·er·ate
inˈsinəˌrāt/
verb
past tense: incinerated; past participle: incinerated

1. destroy (something, especially waste material) by burning.
   "such garbage must be incinerated at the hospital"
   synonyms: burn, reduce to ashes, consume by fire, carbonize;
   cremate
   "we would incinerate our household trash in a barrel in the backyard"

Origin

late 15th century: from medieval Latin incinerat- ‘burned to ashes,’ from the verb incinerare, from in- ‘into, toward’ + cinis, ciner- ‘ashes.’