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GENERAL MOTORS The automaker moved three of its factories to Matamoros, where, a GM manager admitted in a 1989 internal memo, the company sold barrels contaminated with toxic residues to a metal recycler. "This is in direct violation of the law," the manager wrote. A GM study found solvents, which can be carcinogenic and may damage developing fetuses, in GM's wastewater discharge. Still other documents show that GM used three and four times the amount of solvents in Mexico as it did at a comparable plant in Dayton, Ohio. "Not allowed in Dayton," noted a handwritten GM memo...
...Cesar Chavez, which has fought for and won better living conditions and benefits for employees in the wine-grape, rose and mushroom industries and which has led an important boycott against the table-grape industry for continuing to spray their fields and the nearby neighborhoods with oil-based toxic pesticides. Harvard has participated in the table-grape boycott since the 1980s, and we hope their active participation in that fight will inspire their thinking about the strawberry pickers...
...suspect that approaches based on this model would be much less toxic than chemotherapy," Cantor says...
According to the homepage of the major Harvard soy supplier, Vitasoy U.S.A. (www.badminton.com/Vitasoy/intro.htm), soy milk contains "nutritional 'treasures'" that are "very effective in helping our body get rid of toxic waste...
...during pregnancy has cut that transmission rate to 8%. In the next few months researchers will begin putting HIV-infected mothers on combination therapy with protease inhibitors to see if they can cut the rate to zero. But protease inhibitors are so much more powerful and potentially toxic than AZT that no one knows what harm it might do to the developing fetus...