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Pesticides Intentionally Sprayed in Low Income Homes for Experimentation

Bush adminstration supports Program to deliberaretely subject
infants and small children to known toxins.Of course they manipulate poor people into subjecting themselves to poison for money. The Bush administration sinks to even greater lows.

Of course, as ENDGAME shows, these types of studies have gone on for some time-- google "Guinea Pig Children" to learn about foster children and low income black children being subjected to this sick eugenics program.

One of the key points of this program is to "routinely spray pesticides inside the home." Then, a field officer will "visit every 3-6 months for 2 years to conduct tests before and after pesticides [exposure], collecting food and urine samples."

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This website is dedicated to Guinea Pig Kids - a BBC documentary that exposes how the city of New York has been forcing HIV-Positive children under its supervision to be used as human guinea pigs in tests for experimental AIDS drug trials. (This is a slightly edited version of the complete documentary that was broadcast on Tuesday, 30 November, 2004, at 1930 GMT on BBC Two in the UK. )

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A storm is gathering as EPA's proposed rules for human pesticide experiments have been made public by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
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This is not the first time he has shown bad faith. When his appointment was held up by Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator Bill Nelson.until he suspended the notorious Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study (CHEERS)--that was designed to expose toddlers to pesticide and record their reactions, Johnson agreed only to invite pesticide producers to submit their own study.

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Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home.

But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic.

"We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of this was because of their HIV infection."

Incarnation Children's Center, Harlem
In fact it was the drugs that were making the children ill and the children had been enrolled on the secret trials without their relatives' or guardians' knowledge.

As Jacklyn would later discover, those who tried to take the children off the drugs risked losing them into care.
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"Would they have done those experiments with their own children? I doubt it."

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WASHINGTON, DC, April 11, 2005 (ENS) - A study planned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that would pay parents to test their childrens' reaction to pesticides nearly proved to be an insurmountable stumbling block for the nominee to the agency's top post.

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Congress reviewed 22 EPA-related human studies conducted by the pesticide companies and found that test subjects didn't know what they were being exposed to and, in many cases, had no idea why the testing was being done.
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Congress' concern over EPA's pesticide program was piqued this year when it learned about an agency project that, using $2 million from the chemical industry, would have measured the pesticide consumption of infants in low-income households in Florida.

EPA would have paid the parents every time they sprayed pesticides. Children in the program were to be given teething rings and slices of cheese because researchers knew the youngsters would drop them, then place them in their mouths. In addition, the project was to have given parents about $1,000 and video equipment to monitor and record their children's activities.

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ORIGINAL: tacitus
The solution not to do away with the FDA -- that would just give corporations free reign (and we just saw what happened with the financial industry when there is no effective oversight)

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Without some government standards and regulation on behalf of the public, then there is nothing to stop drug companies, food companies, or pesticide companies from doing and claiming just about anything they want to -- we will have no way of knowing what's true and what's a dangerous lie.

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Taking these people to court rarely works, particularly if the plaintiffs are private citizens with limited funding. Time and again, corporations use their deep pockets to delay and defer cases for years -- decades in some cases -- until the plaintiffs run out of money or even die.

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-- the solution is to reform the FDA -- to make it an effective tool in protecting the consumer from harm. We will always need watchdogs to keep an eye on the FDA too, but they also need to be reminded that they work for us -- we're the ones footing the bill after all.