IS THE REGION OF WATERLOO DOING HONEST TESTING TODAY OF MILK COLLECTED FROM COWS DOWNSTREAM OF LANESS?

 

IS THE INDIGENOUS MEANING OF THE NAME SUSAN "SHE WHO WOULD KEEP SECRETS"?

Well we have evidence of mishandling of sampling and testing of milk collected from farms along the downstream Canagagigue Creek in the 1990s. We also through government reports have evidence of contaminated milk (odour & taste) from the same source in the 1960s. This milk was rejected by the former Silverwood Dairies in Elmira. What I don't know is if that dairy had any kind of testing or lab equipment to determine the nature of the chemicals in the milk. They could easily have been chlorophenols, chlorobenzene, NDMA, DDT, dioxins etc..

Based upon this history of either malfeasance or misfeasance presumably by our regional Health Department it gives me a better understanding of why no health study was ever done in Elmira. Can you imagine the outcry if indeed citizens of Elmira were poisoned by the water they drank, the milk they consumed as well as the air they breathed? All the coddling and support Uniroyal Chemical received from  Woolwich Councils and Regional Councils over the decades could be misconstrued as a government coverup. Or not misconstrued.

Then of course there is also the matter of beef cattle. I am not knowledgeable in matters of our food chain from farm to supermarket but if milk from cows can be contaminated by dioxins etc. then so can the flesh of cattle. We know that both DDT and dioxins bioaccumulate as they go up the food chain. This is why those chemicals being found in fish tissues in 2014 is so serious. Those fish are consumed by predators and the contaminants move up the food chain. Grazing by cattle on contaminated floodplains is a different mechanism but the results are the same. The chemicals are in the soils and when cattle rip a chunk of grass to eat soil particles attached to the roots are also consumed. hence contamination in milk cows as well as in beef cattle. 

As shocking as this shall we say incompetence has been, is it possible that it is still continuing?  Well we know that Lanxess and friends have not removed so much as a shovelful of contaminated sediments to date other than to  sample sediments improperly (shovel versus appropriate core sampler). We also know from numerous testing also sometimes using inappropriately high lab Method Detection Limits (MDL)  that the whole five miles plus of Creek is contaminated above health criteria. Therefore I think I can confidently suggest that there is an excellent chance that indeed to this day contaminated milk and beef are still on the market.

  IF THE REGION HAVE BEEN DOING HONEST TESTING THEN MAKE YEARS OF THAT TESTING PUBLIC.  IF THEY REFUSE THEN WHICH HEROES ARE GOING TO STEP UP? WILL IT BE WOOLWICH  COUNCILLORS OR REGIONAL COUNCILLORS? MAYBE EVEN OUR MEDIA?

                     OR WILL IT BE THE USUAL  i.e. NOBODY