Tons of released drugs taint US water | Seattle Times Newspaper — This is reported because we do not have enough to worry about already.
U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals
into waterways that often provide drinking water – contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety of manufacturing, including drugmaking: For example, lithium is used to make ceramics and treat bipolar disorder; nitroglycerin is a heart drug and also used in explosives; copper shows up in everything from pipes to contraceptives.
Found by Aric Mackey.
More wine please!
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THEN GO TO THE NEAREST river, and throw a BUCKET in the deep end, and take a slug.. NOT off the top..OFF the bottom of the river.
#22:
I wouldn’t drink the sludge off the bottom of any river even if this were pre-industrial times.
271 million pounds is not that much after it’s diluted.
Cancer rates dropping and life spans are increasing. Explain it.
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“271 million pounds is not that much after it’s diluted.
Cancer rates dropping and life spans are increasing. Explain it.”
271 mill isnt the answer…Multiply buy 100 year of that much per year. Then look to the Island of CRAP called JUNK in the pacific as big as texas.
Lower cancer and longer life??
Just means They are doing a good job of hiding it.(in someone ELSES yard) ASK about the trash being hauled away from NEW YORK and other states on the East coast..
#11 Dood…Pluto-crats are like that Monopoly Guy or Mr. Peanut. You know…spats and a monocle are de rigueur for those guys and John C. Dvorak as he counts his money from the No Agenda li-berry.
Plutocrate is:
HE who dies with the most money wins..By hook or crook..By good or Evil, By Illusion or making you give it to them out of NEED/WANT/TAXES…
“That’s why my niece and her friends starting developing breasts at the age of 9 and had first menstruation at 10 or 11.”
Yeah, well, I highly doubt that. It’s pretty well known that time before menses and caloric intake is an inverse relationship.
Otherwise, why aren’t boys experiencing abnormal sexual maturity from these hormones?
Moran. Because they’re FEMALE hormones, like estrogen. Same stuff they give to chickens.
A lot of whats killing off frogs and fish and what not is the residue of sex and hormone drugs and other pharmaceuticals that pass thru the human body and are excreted into the environment==all at very measurable levels. And being part of the pharmaceutical industry, of course there are no hazard levels set for these contaminants as they aren’t directly poison or cancerous==just disastrous.
Even though I think Obama wants to change Washington and try and make our public survants really serve the public. I think big business has run Washington for some time and I really don’t see things improving. Most of our lawmakers are in it for themselves and to get pork projects for their State. They could care less about the rest of the country. As we have seen, both parties ignore their spending habits and still think the taxpayer is a bottomless finacial base for this spending.
The EPA is more concerned about global warming these days and our FDA seems to forget that its their job to protect our food chain. Our SEC spends money going after people like Martha Stuart while Bernie Madolph pillages American dreams. I can only imagine what great plan they will have for our healthcare system.
FDA, EPA, and the dept of ag, are so under funded and TOOTHLESS, that any fines are a SLAP on the wrist. The fines dont even amount to 10% of a corps profits..
AND the IRS is so BAD on Major corps, they couldnt figure out the MATH from there OWN documents..AND they cant/wont cross reference ANYTHING SPENT..
#27:
“Moran. Because they’re FEMALE hormones, like estrogen.”
First of all, you spelled ‘moron’ wrong. I never attack people by correcting their spelling – unless it’s someone calling me a ‘moron’ and spelling it ‘moran.’
That you call them ‘female’ hormones means you probably don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m no scientist, but if there’s so much estrogen in the water supply, where’s the evidence that it affects other people? It doesn’t seem like women are getting hot flashes any later than they normally do, for example.
Are they? Dunno. But everyone always pulls out this ‘girls maturing earlier’ thing as conclusive proof that there are dangerous levels of estrogen in the food supply. But, they conveniently ignore the calorie theory.
It’s like, kids are eating thousands of more calories a day and there’s absolutely no question that girls mature earlier when they eat more. That’s why I don’t believe that some trace chemical in the water or milk (hormones are undetected in milk, akaik) causing this.
But all the nuts at the whole foods store will use boobies on 11-year olds as evidence that we’re on our way straight to hell. They sickeningly exploit the sexual nature of this, like, ‘they’re stealing our children’s innocence!’ As if big Ag is some kind of child molester. Puh-leze.
Raving lunatics, all of them. Then they point out that *their* little girls don’t hit menarche until high school. Yeah, well that’s because they’re on a restricted calorie diet of seeds and twigs – nothing to do with the ‘hormones’ in food.
I’m just so sick of hearing this thing repeated.
#24:
“Lower cancer and longer life??
Just means They are doing a good job of hiding it.(in someone ELSES yard) ASK about the trash being hauled away from NEW YORK and other states on the East coast.”
I know there’s a bunch of garbage buried. I know that some of it leaches into some of the water. But every time I hear people bleat about how THIS IS ABSOLUTELY GONNA KILL US! I can’t help trying to FIND these dead people.
Where are they?
We’ve been using and burying plastics for a couple generations now. Same thing with cordless phones. And hormone-treated food. And CRTs. The list goes on.
Yet, no one is dying. People are living longer and they’re getting cancer less often. The way these nuts rant and rave, we should all be walking around with big face tumors and giving birth to menstruating three-year olds.
I don’t see it. Sorry.
First of all, you spelled ‘moron’ wrong. I never attack people by correcting their spelling – unless it’s someone calling me a ‘moron’ and spelling it ‘moran.’
Ya learn somethin’ new every day. And by “ya” I mean “you”.
Personally I prefer the Bugs Bunny term “maroon”, but “moran” is kind of traditional.
#33:
You’re a funny guy. You must be joking, or trolling. If you’re not…
sayeth dictionary.com:
“No results found for moran”
merriam-webster.com:
“The word you’ve entered isn’t in the dictionary.”
ah, here it is:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moran
After thinking about the EPA, and the rest all trying to get money out of your pocket(as a corp), and that you cant BUY them off forever without someone figuring whats going on..
WHY NOT ship those Heavy chemical/waste/metal industries OUT of the country??
AND that lowers costs even MORE, because of lower Wages..
So, lets look at Mexico, India, Pakistan, and other nations that the CORPS have bought into. To make their GOODS/Products/chemicals that POLLUTE LARGE AREAS..
I heard about this contamination. But I didn’t know it was in Seattle. So they can add this to the list of other things polluting their waters. Like all the PCBs they’ve found in Puget Sound, coming primarily from run off from the Boeing plant. And just like that large concern. None of the pharms are going to own up to this contamination or take the responsibility to pay for cleaning it up.
With all the concerns over Global Warming. Why is there not an equal concern about this water pollution, that’s taking place? Because the industries doing the polluting are far more politically connected, than the domestic coal industry. We’ll probably end up being poisoned by our drinking water, than drowned by melting glaciers.