Most people still don’t know what Agent Orange is. Of those that do know about the issue, many think it’s a problem of the past. However, the effects of Agent Orange is still felt by millions of people and their children today. The chemical have been shown to cause serious skin diseases as well as a vast variety of cancers in the lungs, larynx, and prostate. (Read: Understanding Agent Orange).
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Awareness is often the biggest step to solving the problem.
To learn more, visit Make Agent Orange History.
Shameful conduct by Dow Corning and others on this matter.
The US government took US taxpayers money and gave it to Dow Corning to purchase Agent Orange (and others) which was then sprayed on the Vietnamese countryside and on US soldiers who had been drafted to fight in Vietnam.
The US government used public money to buy one of the most toxic substances known to man which they sprayed on their own soldiers. Seem bizarre?
Whilst affected US veterans have received some recompense, quite shamefully the US has not accepted responsibility for the thousands born many years after the war who are still affected.
In this way Agent Orange has proven more toxic than nuclear weapons. Children born in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years later are not being affected like children being born today in Vietnam.
Compensation for Vietnamese victims of agent orange NOW!