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To: stockman_scott who wrote (14683)	12/14/2004 5:23:20 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 20773

From the article: "the Environmental Protection Agency had planned to spend nine million dollars – two million of it from the administration's friends at the American Chemistry Council – to pay poor families to continue to use pesticides in their homes. These pesticides have been linked to neurological damage in children, but instead of ordering an end to their use, the government and the industry were going to offer the families $970 each, as well as a camcorder and children's clothing, to serve as guinea pigs for the study. " A friend of mine recounts how his mother "died like a coachroach on her back", unable to control her arms and legs. It was Parkinson's, late stage. She was a huge fan of chlordane and when it was no longer going to be available, she horded what amounted to a life-time supply to ensure her home would be bug free, using it regularly for 15 years after its removal from the market. Chlordane was recalled because of the implications of organic damage from its on-going use (seen in the migrants and farmers who worked the fields where it was sprayed).