Dioxin: It's whats for supper

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Eat beef and you'll enjoy the highest load of one of the most toxic substances known.



Vegan diets expose you to the least amount of the chemical. Dioxin is a potent carcinogen and was the toxin used on the Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko and it is still causing birth defects in Vietnamese children forty years after Agent Orange was sprayed there.

http://www.ejnet.org/dioxin/

What Is Dioxin, Anyway?
Where does it come from? And are its effects reversible?

By Sam Schechner


Yuschenko's extreme makeover

This past weekend, doctors in Vienna confirmed that Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko has been suffering from dioxin poisoning. Since September, Yushchenko has had ulcers in his stomach and intestines, problems with his liver and spleen, and disfiguring facial cysts that have left him looking far older than he is. What is dioxin, anyway, and why does it have such wild effects?

The term dioxin actually refers to a family of more than 70 isomers of highly toxic, man-made organic compounds—dioxins—that are byproducts of some industrial processes and waste incineration. Dioxins are fat-soluble, so they tend to accumulate in the tissues of the animals who encounter them, and it can take many years for the compounds to break down. Any person living in an industrialized country has dioxins in his or her body—we ingest them when we eat animal fats or animal-fat byproducts.

It's unclear how harmful these low doses could be. Some animals begin to show symptoms of poisoning when they're given doses only two or three times the level of dioxins in the average person's body. Research has shown that dioxins increase the risk of certain kinds of cancer but lower the risk of others.

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http://www.slate.com/id/2110979


Enjoy!

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1. No wonder the cows are mad.... nt.

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2. Sorry, I can't give up on a

rare NY Strip, Ribeye, Filet Mignon, or Prime Rib. Damn I'm hungry now.:smoke:

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3. I had Liver and Onions

Yesterday, delicious but I sure won't do that again for a another three years.

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4. To find out more about dioxin in Vietnam from Agent Orange...

Check out "Battle's Poison Cloud" documentary which is showing on the 31st next week on Free Speech TV.

That really reminds us how it is poisoning Vietnam so much even today.

http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=18164

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7. Thanks eom

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5. I mean, we're all gonna die anyway

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6. I know we are hit with this stuff all the time.

As a kid I'd often wonder if I'd ever get to see a wild Peregrine Falcon due to DDT. Not only do I get to see them now, I get to show numbers of them to my kids along with Merlins, Bald Eagles, Cooper's Hawks and other raptors. The thing is if you can eliminate the most toxic and such a big change can occur just think of what Dioxin control would mean to cancer and birth defect rates.

I don't like the path the World is going but I want to live as long as I can to try and have an affect.