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Lead poisoning was already known when tetraethyl lead was introduced.
The manufacturers were killing their workers, and knew it. New Jersey and New York City threatened to ban the poison. The manufacturers went to the Federal Government, and with fraud and with their influence, they overturned these bans.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/looney-gas-and-lead-poisoning-a-short-sad-history/
The manufacturers are still at it. At least one British firm is making the poison and exporting the poison.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/07/violent-crime-lead-poisoning-british-export
The damage is impossible to calculate. By now, I think it’s well-established that lead is poisonous, affects the brain, is most toxic in childhood, is more toxic in organic lead compounds than in metallic lead, has no safe dose, is cumulative, and can contribute to violence in high doses. A few recent studies suggest that tetraethyl lead pollution has contributed to violence.
I don’t think we’ll ever find the end of the secondary and tertiary damage. If tetraethyl lead pollution causes violence, has it contributed, directly or indirectly, to the violence and growth of the prison-industrial cancer?
Lead poisoning was already known when tetraethyl lead was introduced.
The manufacturers were killing their workers, and knew it. New Jersey and New York City threatened to ban the poison. The manufacturers went to the Federal Government, and with fraud and with their influence, they overturned these bans.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/looney-gas-and-lead-poisoning-a-short-sad-history/
The manufacturers are still at it. At least one British firm is making the poison and exporting the poison.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/07/violent-crime-lead-poisoning-british-export
The damage is impossible to calculate. By now, I think it’s well-established that lead is poisonous, affects the brain, is most toxic in childhood, is more toxic in organic lead compounds than in metallic lead, has no safe dose, is cumulative, and can contribute to violence in high doses. A few recent studies suggest that tetraethyl lead pollution has contributed to violence.
I don’t think we’ll ever find the end of the secondary and tertiary damage. If tetraethyl lead pollution causes violence, has it contributed, directly or indirectly, to the violence and growth of the prison-industrial cancer?
