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Allison Wilson

Video: Biotechnology, Agrichemicals, and the Value of Life

October 17, 2018 By Allison Wilson

On a recent trip through Hawai’i as a guest of Hawai‘i Seed, Jonathan Latham, Director of the Project, talked at the University of Hawai’i.

Industrial agriculture is logically dependent on infringing on the quality of life, often catastrophically, of diverse creatures. The islands comprising Hawai’i exhibit those harms perhaps more than anywhere else on earth. Using new revelations of the Poison Papers (www.poisonpapers.org) as examples of how regulators fail to protect us I discuss the true extent of those toxic impacts. Even without revelations such as the Poison Papers however, we already know enough to stop supporting industrial agriculture, yet governments continue to do so, showering them with subsidies and other incentives. The reasons they decide wrongly are in part about economics and in part about scientific corruption; but here I point to an underlying conceptual flaw in our collective cultural understanding of life itself. Critiquing our standard, but illogical, modern interpretation of the nature of life is an overlooked key to understanding the the tragic and disastrous policies and practices prevailing in agriculture. But immediately obvious too is that the misunderstanding of life pervades much more broadly–into the justice system, into education, and into healthcare, to name just a few of those domains.

Filed Under: Poison Papers News Tagged With: agriculture, Hawai‘i, toxic

New ‘Poison Papers’ Leak: EPA Knew About Many Dangerous Toxins, But Kept Quiet

September 10, 2018 By Allison Wilson

A new leak in the series of documents known as the “poison papers,” which were provided by whistleblower William Sanjour, show that unless regulatory bodies such as the EPA have real political backing, they will not act in the public interest. We speak to Jonathan Latham of the Bioscience Resource Project.

Watch the full interview which aired on the Real News Network on September 10, 2018:

https://therealnews.com/stories/new-poison-papers-leak-epa-knew-about-many-dangerous-toxins-but-kept-quiet

 

Filed Under: Poison Papers News Tagged With: Dr. Jonathan Latham, EPA, Hazardous waste, Poison Papers, Real News Network, regulation, toxic chemicals, William Sanjour

Environmentally-Caused Disease Crisis? Pesticide Damage to DNA Found ‘Programmed’ Into Future Generations

September 7, 2018 By Allison Wilson

The EPA, chemical companies like Monsanto (now Bayer) and mainstream news media are ignoring research indicating pesticides (including the herbicides atrazine and glyphosate, the fungicide vinclozolin and many more) cause heritable disease by introducing epigenetic changes to DNA.

“A chemical (glyphosate) that didn’t come onto the scene until the 1970s has now managed to find its way into every single pregnant woman in the U.S, except seven percent of them. We thought that should be news. But in the current paradigm, which is definitely pro-business, the only thing companies have to prove is that it doesn’t kill you if you drink it or take a big dose of it.”

He [Winchester] sees a potentially catastrophic outcome resulting from the epigenetic damage caused by pesticides.

Read the full story by Ken Roseboro, published on EcoWatch, August 16 2018 at: https://www.ecowatch.com/generational-harm-of-pesticides-2596453994.html

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: atrazine, birth defects, Dr. Michael Skinner, Dr. Paul Winchester, EPA, Epigenetics, fungicide, Glyphosate, herbicide, heritable disease, Monsanto, pesticide, vinclozolin

Daylong UCSF Chemical Industry Documents Library Event Includes: “Failing for Forty Years: What the Poison Papers Tell Us About the EPA and How to Reform It”

August 29, 2018 By Allison Wilson

September 13, 2018, the UCSF Environmental Health Initiative, in collaboration with the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and the UCSF Industry Documents Library, will host a day-long series on the science and stories contained within three new collections of chemical industry documents being added to the library. The goal is to expand public awareness about the contents of the collections and their vast potential in informing scientific research, public policy, and decision-making.

Lecture:

“Failing for Forty Years: What the Poison Papers Tell Us About the EPA and How to Reform It”

Thursday September 13 from 10:00am-11:00am
Location:
Byers Auditorium
UCSF Mission Bay Campus
600 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94143
United States

Jonathan Latham, Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and donor of the Poison Papers to the UCSF Chemical Industry Documents library. Dr. Latham will talk about the importance of the 20,000-document collection and how they expose problems with both the internal culture of the EPA and its legal framework that are often fraught with industry influences that prevent precautionary decision-making, even when the science clearly points to danger.

Brunch to follow in Genentech Hall Atrium from 11-12.


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Panel Discussion:

“Unsealing the Science: What the Public can Learn from Internal Chemical Industry Documents,”

Thursday, September 13 at 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Location:
533 Parnassus Avenue
Cole Hall Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94143
United States

A panel discussion with the donors of three new UCSF chemical industry documents collections – the Glyphosate and Agrochemical Collection (Gary Ruskin, US Right to Know), the Poison Papers (Jonathan Latham, Bioscience Resource Project), and the Benzene Collection (Raphael Metzger, principal of the Metzger Law Group) will explore what the documents mean for public health and the perils they faced in making these documents public.  Professor Stanton Glantz, who began the library with the first collection of internal tobacco industry documents, will introduce the panel and explain how the documents have been used to inform litigation, documentaries, and public policy decisions. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Tracey Woodruff, Professor and Director of the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and Co-Director of the UCSF Environmental Health Initiative, which has supported the development of the Chemical Industry Documents library.

Panel discussion from 3:30-5:30 at Cole Hall Auditorium.

To attend, please click here to reserve your free ticket.

Filed Under: Poison Papers News Tagged With: Environmental Health Initiative, EPA, Event, Poison Papers, reform, UCSF, UCSF Industry Documents Library

Mongabay Series: Amazon Agribusiness, Cerrado Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma, say critics

August 29, 2018 By Allison Wilson

Written by by Anna Sophie Gross and published on 27 August 2018 in Mongabay: News and Inspiration from Nature’s Frontline.

 

Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma, say critics

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: 2, 4-D, atrazine, banned pesticides, BASF, Bayer, Brazil, food, Glyphosate, GMO animal feed, health, Monsanto, paraquat, soy, Syngenta, toxic

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