Corporations hate to let things like regulations
and laws and regard for human life get in
the way of their profits and that's why they
fall in love with foreign countries where
they can get away with virtually anything.
Joining me to talk about this is Farron Cousins
from the Trial Lawyer Magazine.
Farron, no surprises here.
The big chemical companies, they can't sell
their product in the United States because
it kills too many people say, okay, we can't
sell in the United States.
Let's go to a third world country.
Let's go to a more emerging country economy
where there's no laws where there's no regulations
and bribery will work every single day.
That's what the chemical companies are doing
right now, isn't it?
Right in 23 different states across this country,
we've got chemical manufacturers making pesticides
that they know they cannot use in the United
States.
Their use is banned, so what they're doing
is they're making these and they're shipping
them overseas.
They're shipping them, as you said, third
world country dictatorships anywhere where
you can easily skirt regulations or pay off
regulators and governments and that's a huge
profit center for them.
I mean, we're talking billions of dollars
and this is not by any stretch of the imagination,
a new phenomenon.
This isn't something they just started a couple
of weeks ago.
They had been doing this for decades, making
it here, shipping it there to kill.
Okay, so they've got, they've got a couple
of fronts.
The first front in America is with legal bribery,
which is just payola that comes from lobbyists,
you know, spread enough around and you've
got it under control.
The second thing they do is take control of
the regulatory agents.
Go ahead and hire them.
Tell them, you know, you're making 150,000
today, come with us and oh by the way, don't
pay quite so much attention to this investigation
you got going and we're going to pay 400,000.
The media easy, easy play.
They simply buy advertising on the television
and the media doesn't pay any attention to
it.
The lawyers, like people like us, we go to
bat, you know, against these folks.
And so what they tried to do, that's their
last vestige of protection for the consumer.
So what they ended up doing is saying, you
know, it's a lot easier just to dump all this
stuff in a third world country and create
collusion with government by payoffs and bribery,
a graft basically,
Right now what we're looking at is about 13
tons per day of these banned pesticides are
leaving the US and heading to these countries.
And it's causing, according to conservative
estimates, 346,000 deaths per year, directly
related just to these pesticides.
They cause all forms of cancer, alzheimer's,
endocrine problem, hormonal changes in people
and these are irreversible.
Birth defects.
Yeah, birth defect, you know, the usual things
you see from the most volatile chemicals.
Yeah.
But another side of this, and this is a phenomenal
report on it, but I think it needs to go a
little further because obviously if we have
these 23 states where these banned pesticides
are being produced, there's virtually no way
that workers in these plants are not also
being exposed to it, that the local communities
may be exposed to it.
I think that's an avenue that also needs its
own investigation because it'll happen.
Let me bring it back home.
Go to the supermarket.
Supermarket with globalization, right?
Democrats, oh, globalize, globalize, globalize.
Well, here's the end of globalization.
Pesticide ends up in third world country.
The stuff we can't sell here, they use it
on the crops.
Where does it end up?
Back in America.
Go to the grocery store sometimes, see all
these things with tags, the plum with tag
on it.
You know what banana with a tag on it and
understand that that's coming from a country
probably where this has been dumped.
FDA makes no attempt.
Less than 2% of everything that comes in this,
less than 2% is ever even checked out by the,
by the FDA.
So there's no, there's really no protection
here at all.
It's it's, you know, there's way to make it
safe.
There's a way to do this affordable, but corporate
America is always falling to the lowest point
to increase profit and that's what happened
here.
And you know, just to add to this too, when
it comes back here on the, the fruit and vegetables
that we consume, you can't just wash that
off.
It's become a part of the plant in the growing
process, much like glyphosate does.
It gets inside of it and it's there until
you consume it and then it builds up in your
body.
We see the problems right now in the other
countries, I'm sure they're developing here
in the United States, and this is something
people have to pay attention to.
Okay, look where, I'm going to take a little
longer on this segment.
I want to take a little bit longer here because
this is so important.
What you've got is this becomes, it builds
up as a toxin in the body.
Right.
You eat the same banana again and again, it
builds up as a toxin in the body.
The other thing they're finding is in the
fruit.
It's actually in the seeds of the fruit, so
it's not like you wash it off and everything's
okay.
But this is the story that the FDA won't tell.
Media won't tell this story.
It's amazing when you do a search on this
to try to find out how all these parts are
connected.
You almost can't find the story.
Truthout did this story, I think it's a wonderful
story.
They did, they did an incredible job.
