Whenever I hear the name Monsanto I can’t help but think about one of the greatest environmental crimes in the history of the United States. Back in 1935 Monsanto bought out a small chemical company located in Anniston, Alabama, a struggling town of about 22,000 poor and working class people. Monsanto spent the next 36 years using Anniston as its manufacturing headquarters for PCBs, an industrial coolant. Tragically, the company was also recklessly poisoning the local community, environment and its own workers with hundreds of tons of this highly toxic material. For decades Monsanto used Snow Creek, a small local waterway that flowed past its plant, to dispose of PCBs. The company claims that they just didn’t know any better – that as soon as they became aware that PCBs were a human and environmental health problem, they took steps to stop the dumping and to protect local residents and workers. But as documents that the company was forced to turn over during a series of lawsuits that began in the late 1990’s show, their claimed ignorance of the harmful impacts of PCBs is just another in a long, ongoing list of Monsanto’s endless lies. commondreams.org/views/2012/01/31/monsanto-returns-scene-crime Anniston, AlabamaThe Anniston StarMellow Mushroom Anniston Anniston Gammas Anniston Museum of Natural HistoryThe Anniston Police DepartmentFraternal Order of Police Anniston Lodge #4 Anniston PARD Aquatic & Fitness Center Anniston Oncology OxfordBlack GoldBaseballMel O. Oxford Oxford, Alabama
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