Response of PBGEA and CropLife

8 Response of PBGEA and CropLife to Dr. Romeo F. Quijano’s “The Lies of PBGEA and CropLife she simultaneously drinks 20 cups of the 1% fungicide.

PBGEA, Croplife and their cohorts also cite Nobel Prize winner Dr. Bruce Ames' statement that "you get more carcinogens in a cup of coffee than eating fruits sprayed with chemicals the whole day” as their authoritative source of the “pesticide safer than coffee” argument.

This statement of Dr. Ames is false. A simple search of the scientific literature will tell you the obvious fact that there are more carcinogens in fruits sprayed with chemicals than in a cup of coffee. When Dr. Ames made that statement, trying to trivialize the dangers of pesticide residues in food, he was already a paid consultant of the toxic chemicals industries, serving their business interests. Ames is a geneticist who, in the 1970s, developed bacterial assays for mutagenicity now commonly used as short-term tests for carcinogens for which he earned a Nobel Prize. He then published a series of articles warning of increasing cancer rates and of the need for tough regulation of industrial carcinogens. By the 1980s, however, Ames did a complete turnabout, now claiming just the opposite, that overall cancer rates are not increasing, that industrial carcinogens are unimportant causes of cancer which do not need regulating, and that the real causes of cancer are natural dietary carcinogens. He became a paid consultant of the toxic chemicals(including pesticides) industry such as the Chemical Manufacturers Association, American Crop Protection Association and the American Plastics Council and was put forward to counter increasing scientific data pointing to serious adverse health effects of various toxic chemicals. Chemical industry apologists often quoted Ames for his prochemical industry statements. He was in the advisory board of various industry institutions such as The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) and the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) and was in the company of other corporate henchmen like Patrick Michaels, Fred Singer and Dennis Avery. In 2002 Michaels was involved in an organized crime fraud to block Kyoto Protocol in Canada. The event was constructed by Philip Morris's ad agency APCO. APCO has a history of 13 years of organizing science hoax events beginning with TASSC. Michaels works for Oilmen Koch of Koch Industries under the front organization name of CATO Institute. Michaels is slipped money in his pocket from three book titles published by CATO. Tobacco companies such as Philip Morris who have directors on the board of CATO, have been caught making payments through secret accounts paid through lawyers and swiss numbered account payments completely "off the books." Singer, a former government scientist, has become one of the world’s leading and most quoted climate sceptics. Singer has also attacked other issues such as ozone depletion, acid rain, automobile emissions and whaling. During the US Congressional hearing on ozone depletion, Singer tried to establish his ozone credentials by claiming to have published several peer-reviewed papers in which he presented his current theories about why the continent-sized ozone hole over the South Pole isn't a problem. However, when Congressional staff checked his references, they found that Singer's only published work on ozone depletion during the past 20 years had been one letter to the editor of SCIENCE magazine, and two articles in magazines that are not peer reviewed. Singer has also tried to debunk global warming along with Patrick Michaels at press conference organised by the Wise Use group, Consumer Alert. Consumer Alert and Cooler Heads Coalition are both projects of Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). CEI was founded in March 1984. In 1986, it began its "free market legal program," which seeks to overturn government regulations that the CEI regards as inappropriate, such as regulations pertaining to drug safety, chemicals, rent control, and automobile fuel efficiency. By 1992, CEI tried to counter the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. CEI became a leading force behind an ongoing, industry-funded campaign to eliminate funding for environmental education throughout the United States. In 1995, CEI joined several other think tanks in attacking Our Stolen Future, the book about environmental endocrine disruptors, labeling the book "a scaremongering tract." In March 1996, CEI published "Rachel's Folly," which claims that