For those who do not know, this is where carbaryl was created. Carbaryl is a favorite of the chem junkie industry for “preventing” pine beetles. This is what is being sprayed on your national forests, and transported over creeks and rivers. The India incident was the worst industrial disaster of all time.
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According to the government, at least 500,000 people were affected by the gas leak, and activists like Sarangi say that thousands of children, born to parents directly exposed to the gas leak or poisoned by the contaminated water, are suffering from cleft lips, missing palates, twisted limbs.
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Union Carbide manufactured three kinds of pesticides in this factory including Carbaryl (Sevin), Aldicarb (temik) and a third formula of carbaryl with gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (Sevidol).
“The plant used heavy metals like mercury and chromium. Most of these products and elements are persistent, toxic and harmful for the human body. We decided to test for these chemicals. The water in Shiv Nagar, which is 3 km away from the factory, tested the highest concentration of carbaryl at 0.011ppm which is 110 times the normal standard. Lindane was found at 0.004 ppm, 40 times higher than normal and mercury was 0.024 ppm, 24 times greater than normal.”
We are spraying this all over our national forests during the pine beetle craze. Many national parks are also now soaking their forests with this toxic chemical. Rocky Mountain and Grand Teton being two of them. It’s going to get worse.
