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Letter: Pandora's Box
Letter to the Editor
Posted: Thursday, August 7, 2014 12:00 pm
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After all kinds of different environmental testing was said and done and scientists, experts and the law state that the only safe solution is to remove all the PCBs entirely out of all the buildings built before 1979, the unanswered question remains, why SMMUSD, City Council and politicians are still declining to do anything serious about it?
So who profits in putting the health of 1,500 students and the staff at stake?
We decided to dig deeper and figure out the origin of PCBs in building construction.
The almost exclusive provider of PCBs is Monsanto.
These days, Monsanto has been in the media regarding GMOs and GEs, but having taken a closer look into the past of the company, it turns out that they have been involved in almost every health and environmental scandal for the last six decades.
PCBs, Agent Orange, Dioxin, GMO, Aspartame, growth hormones and herbicides—just to name a few—all contributed to the fortune Monsanto has made and established it as one of the most powerful companies worldwide.
For a company like Monsanto, it would mean nothing to remove the PCBs entirely from our schools, but they are well aware that this would be the tip of the iceberg, and that we did not only open a can of worms, but Pandora’s box.
In recent years there have been many successful lawsuits against Monsanto and they know that this is not only a problem that affects some schools, it potentially affects numerous public building or schools nationwide, built or remodeled between 1950 and 1979.
This could turn into a much larger lawsuit than against the tobacco industry since way more people are, unknowingly, affected.
Imagine all the students that attended contaminated schools all over the U.S. between 1950 and now—that would add up to an impressive number of plaintiffs.
Since the relation between present PCBs and various types of cancer is proven, that might even be an explanation for the rising cancer rates among young children and adolescents.
So now that we know the provider of the culprit, it is time to act not only in Malibu, but nationwide, in order to protect the health and well being of our children.
-- Malibu Unites
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