An agricultural professor and scientist at Cornell University believes that farmers, specially those in East Palestine, Ohio, should have their farms and soils tested for chemical contamination, after a train carrying highly toxic chemicals crashed and were subsequently burned off into the atmosphere.
Most of the modicum amount of attention has been given to East Palestine, though millions of pounds of chemicals that have been released into the atmosphere and have spread far and wide. As noted in other WinePress reports concerning this, these chemicals – some of which were used in World War I – can form acid rain, as the toxins continue to spread throughout waterways and kill the fish and animals in the process.
SEE:
- American Chernobyl: Ohio Train Derailment Launches Deadly Chemicals Into Air, Contaminating Water And Killing Animals. Journalists Arrested For Exposing Coverup
- Ohio Governor DeWine And EPA Say They Would Drink The Water After Train Crash, But Video Shows The Water Is Immensely Poisonous And Is Spreading Across US
- Acid Rain Is Now Being Reported Across The US And Canada After Chemical Release In East Palestine Ohio
But now Murray McBride, an Emeritus Professor of the School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section at Cornell University, recommends that farmers in East Palestine test their fields for chemical contamination.
In a press release he said:
Several industrial chemicals, including vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate, were released in large quantities into the air, surface waters and soils at the site of the derailment. The vinyl chloride release from the rail cars is of special concern because of the particularly high toxicity of this chemical to humans.
It is unclear how much of this volatile chemical escaped into the air or burned before entering surface waters and soil, but vinyl chloride is highly mobile in soils and water and can persist for years in groundwater.
It is advisable that farmers and other residents in this area test their wells over the next few months at least for the presence of the spilled chemicals including vinyl chloride, in order to protect the health of humans and livestock. Because the combustion of vinyl chloride that resulted from the accident may have created highly toxic dioxins, surface soils downwind of the spill site should be tested for dioxin levels particularly where food crops are to be grown.
Unfortunately, vinyl chloride, one of the toxic substances filled into the water supply and air, have already had widespread coverage across the entire United States.
In January of this year, roughly one month before the train derailment, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an updated National Priorities List (NPL) that documents nearly 600 known locations that contain toxic levels of vinyl chloride at the site.
Vinyl chloride has been identified in at least 593 of the 1,867 hazardous waste sites that have been proposed for inclusion on the EPA National Priorities List (NPL) (ATSDR 2019). However, the number of sites in which vinyl chloride has been evaluated is not known. Of these sites, 589 are located within the United States, 1 site is located in the Virgin Islands, and 3 sites are located in Puerto Rico.
The major route of exposure to vinyl chloride is through inhalation. This mostly occurs in the occupational setting but can occur near manufacturing facilities, hazardous waste sites, and natural gas extraction sites, where the air may be contaminated.
In air, vinyl chloride will degrade photochemically with a half-life of 1–2 days.
Vinyl chloride released to water is mostly expected to volatilize into the atmosphere. Small amounts could degrade by photochemical reaction and biodegradation.
Vinyl chloride released to the soil is expected to volatilize or leach into groundwater.
Aerobically, vinyl chloride is expected to degrade by 25% in a week and by >99% in 15.4 weeks. The rate of anaerobic degradation is dependent on the components of the media (e.g., increased iron).
The EPA published
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
“America the Beautiful” – has been turned into a toxic waste dump and cesspool. Look around: the people look horrible, the cities, homes, and infrastructure are in decay; the grounds have been poisoned, chemicals are routinely released into the air, people are fed GMOs covered with chemicals grown in sewage and carcasses of people.
And now we got this totally planned-out chemical release in broad daylight in the U.S. that is going to create a lasting problem for many now and later.
Yesterday in Northern Indiana, right on the border of Michigan, it poured rain all day. In my observations I did not see any evidence of acid rain, yet, neither did I smell anything or feel bad. Lord willingly and I pray that the Lord spares me from this garbage, as I continue to make sure I do the best that I can to stay in the best shape and health that I can.
Even so, this chemical attack and more are judgments from the Lord on a nation that hates and rejects his word.
[14] Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. [15] We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! Jeremiah 8:14-15
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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