³TRADE SECRETSı:
MOYERS\JONES DOCUMENTARY
BASED ON A MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
SHOCKING DOCUMENTS TO AIR ON PBS MARCH 26
A majority of citizens believe most chemicals are already tested for safety,
and that the government is protecting them against harmful chemicals. But
what is the true story?
A groundbreaking investigative report on the chemical industry by Bill
Moyers and award winning documentary film maker Sherry Jones uncovers how
the publicıs health and safety have been put at risk and why corporate
powerful forces don't want the truth to be known.
TRADE SECRETS: A MOYERS REPORT is currently scheduled to air on PBS on
Monday, March 26 at 9 p.m. (check local listings)
This investigative report, accompanied by a PBS Web site, is based on a
massive archive of secret industry documents as shocking as the "tobacco
papers." In the 50 years of the chemical revolution, over 75,000 chemicals
have been released into the environment. What happens as our body absorbs
them? And how can we protect ourselves?
TRADE SECRETS promises to provide everyone working on toxic chemicals and
environmental health issues a tremendous education and outreach opportunity.
Moyers and Jones won the Peabody Award for their last collaboration on
WASHINGTON'S OTHER SCANDAL. To take advantage of this opportunity the
Environmental Health Fund, the Environmental Working Group, the Center for
Health, Environment and Justice and Women's Voices For the Earth are
launching Coming Clean.
Coming Clean is aimed at assisting groups across the country to use the
opportunity of a prime time television special to boost their ongoing work.
Coming Clean is also focused on doing whatever people can to ensure that
after March 26, there are more people in more communities from even more
diverse backgrounds working to stop the chemical contamination of the
worldıs food, bodies and environment.
Viewers are being asked to consider hosting a Coming Clean viewing event.
For more information, contact Charlotte Brody at [log in to unmask]
(703-237-2249), Bryony Schwan at [log in to unmask] (406-543-3747),
Sharyle Patton at [log in to unmask] Mark Ritchie, President, Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy 2105 First Ave. South, Minneapolis, Minnesota
55404 USA 612-870-3400 (phone) 612-870-4846 (fax) [log in to unmask]
News of the program has already raised the ire of the American Farm Bureau
Federation (AFBF) as it reports in a recent issue of one of its e-mail
newsletters in a story headlined "Chemical Industry may be the next TV
victim" that it is concerned about the production. It characterizes the
Moyers\Jones report as being "orchestrated by a group of national
environmental groups" and says that the program will be used "as the
centerpiece for a national anti-chemistry campaign called "Coming Clean² and
that it ³does not appear that any member of the crop protection or chemical
industries was contacted to provide balance to the program.²
The AFBF alert makes no mention of the fact that several multi-million
dollar Farm Bureau insurance conglomerates are heavily invested in various
chemical/biotech companies such as Monsanto, DOW and DuPont.
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