...this is really messed up...children as test subjects..

[Slit Skirt]

please send this to everyone you know....we have to stop this...

EPA & CHEMICAL INDUSTRY TO STUDY EFFECTS OF KNOWN TOXIC CHEMICALS ON CHILDREN

Study Launch Date Suspended Until Early 2005
Offers Public Comment Period


11/22/2004: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), led by Bush appointees, is seeking input on a new proposed study in which infants in participating low income families will be monitored for health impacts as they undergo exposure to known toxic chemicals over the course of two years. The study entitled Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study (CHEERS) will look at how chemicals can be ingested, inhaled or absorbed by children ranging from babies to 3 years old.

For taking part in these studies, each family will receive $970, a free video camera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of appreciation. ...more

http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa-alert.htm

[freeplessinseattle]

1. No Way, this has to be a joke?? this is wholly unethical!

[Slit Skirt]

2. sign the petition here....I can't believe it either.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa-alert.htm#pesticide

[China_cat]

3. It's real

It was proposed earlier and put on hold...not cancelled, just postponed.

Hey, we're talking about POOR kids here. That's what they're there for; to use as test subjects and if they manage to grow up with half a brain and all their limbs then they get to be cannon fodder.

And you can bet you won't hear PETA screaming about it.

[Slit Skirt]

4. this is an outrage.....

I hope everyone will read this and sign this petition....
wtf is this administration up to....killing off their citizens?

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. ONLY low income citizens.

Notice they didn't go to Kennebunkport, Maine (Bushland) or Beverly Hills, Ca. for their subjects. :grr: This is SICK! These people are demented.

[KoKo]

16. It's not true....and I wonder why this article keeps getting posted over

and over on DU. There's much that the Bushies are doing that's scary but this study was not. And I think they wanted to stop the study and they are behind sending out this Petition.

It was to test the chemicals Children are being exposed to by the Pesticide/Chemical makers. Not to apply chemicals to the children to force them to ingest them.

:eyes:

[NYCGirl]

14. Not a joke, just a misreading — snopes link below

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/cheers.asp

[Crunchy Frog]

6. The "Right to Lifers" must be cheering over this.

After all, it doesn't involve fetuses. That puts it squarely in line with good Christian moral values.

[Pepper32]

7. WTH? These people are pure evil...

I am signing the petition right now. However, I think it's time for action beyond just emailing, posting flyers and signing petitions etc. This administration is out to destroy us. :grr::grr:

[liberalmuse]

12. I agree.

Words, signatures and feelings are all nice, but mean nothing without action. I'm ready to take it to the streets and/or perform non-violent acts of civil disobedience. I've had enough of this.

[Maine-ah]

8. signed

:kick:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. What is sadder

is how many of us will be involved in studies on the effects of toxins and not even know about it as Bush lowers standards for clean air and water.

[liberalmuse]

10. The real scary thing...

about these monsters is they do this stuff out in the open. Even Hitler had enough discretion not to flaunt his regime's experiments on human beings. The U.S. government secretly used prisoners, which is wrong in itself, but I guess there's no substitute for an innocent, non-consenting child. Only someone with the hellish soul of a pedophile would think this was acceptable.

These people hate the human race, thus their tendency to revere fetuses and invisible 'gods' while they turn their backs to, and even sanction the genocide going on around the world.

[Slit Skirt]

11. they need to save the fetuses....

so they can do shit like this

[NYCGirl]

13. Check out this debunking on snopes before you judge:

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/cheers.asp

Excerpt (more at the link above):
Claim:   An EPA study proposes paying families to allow their children to be exposed to toxic pesticides.

Status:   Multiple — see below.

The EPA plans to expose youngsters to pesticides in order to study what those chemical compounds do to little children:   False.
The EPA plans to study children who live in an area where pesticides are used year-round:   True.

Origins:   Yet again an interesting mix of truth and scare has been loosed upon us all. While the November 2004 e-mail quoted above is relatively factual, its wording leaves those who receive it with an impression far removed from the truth. While the proposed investigation is real, the nature of the test subjects is misunderstood, leading to the wrong conclusion being arrived at by those who hear of it.

[KoKo]

15. This study was stopped and it wasn't about what this organic consumers

article says. It was to show how children could be harmed by pesiticide use.

[Moderator]

17. Locking.....

This is a misleading story which has been debunked.


DU Moderator