Gill, Kathy wrote:
>
> At the risk of starting a holy war, the largest source of dioxin, if my
> memory serves me right, is forest fires and the burning of wood for heat
> (dioxin is a product of incomplete combustion).
>
> Not Dow Corning.
>
> Don't confuse advocates like Moore with people who "tell the truth" ....
Partial points for Kathy. Partial points for Moore.
Prior to about 1950, dioxin was rather rare in any form.
Then we started putting it in things like bleach, paper mill chemicals,
fertilizers/herbicides, and just about everything else we could think of
that we dumped into rivers.
Dioxin bio-accumulates. A fish eats it today, it's still in the fish in
10 years. A tree abosrbs it ten years ago, it's still there today . . .
So, given that we polluted the living bejesus out of our environment
with dioxin, and then outlawed it in the late 60s, the largest source of
dioxin TODAY is from bio-accumulated sources. Tress are the biggest,
longest living of souch sources, so when they burn, they naturally
release the most at once.
But it's not like the dioxin got their on its own. Dow and bretheren
put it there in the first place. :P
B
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