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FYI... Philly makes it onto Network TV.

Sunday's 60 Minutes (March 29) had a segment about Furadan...a highly toxic pesticide made by Philly's own (usually under-the-radar) FMC Corporation....which incidentally is a top manufacturer of fluoride for our water (medicating and experimenting on millions without informed consent), and an all-too-modest manufacturer of tobacco pesticides. (Funny how they never advertise that.)

 60 Minutes  segment was about extensive use of Furadan by cattle herders in Kenya (and elsewhere in Africa) to poison lions...thus leading to widespread, catastrophic deaths of lions....AND hyenas, jackals, buzzards, and everything else that eats from Furadan-poisoned carcasses.

Here's  the 60 Minutes material...the whole transcript, in fact, with videos:
  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/26/60minutes/main4894945.shtml
 
 And ... FMC's response:
  http://www.fmc.com/

 FMC "condemns any misuse of its products"...especially if that misuse is widely exposed, it seems.
 FMC has never condemned use or misuse of its fluoride in public water despite ethical objections galore re/ Informed Consent of the unwittingly-medicated public, or despite endless evidence of the harms of that industrial waste substance.
 And FMC has not condemned use/misuse of it's pesticides on tobacco, nor the government tolerance...de facto approval...of residues of those pesticides in typical cigarettes.   Of the 37 (out of about 450 pesticides registered for use on tobacco) pesticide residues condemned by the GAO as receiving lax govt oversight on tobacco, four were from FMC...Clomozone, Sulfentrazone, Endosulfan, and Carbofuran.   Others are from Dow, Rohm/Haas, DuPont, Bayer, etc and other un-indicted parts of the cigarette cartel.   (Bayer, a pharm, proud provider of aspirin for our headaches, scion of the Third Reich's IG Farben Pharmaceuticals, had ELEVEN tobacco pestides on this list.)   Google up "Fauxbacco for more.
   http://www.gao.gov/atext/d03485.txt

    Furadan, the lion (etc)-killing chemical, was not on that short GAO list...but a quick Google of "Furadan tobacco" shows that.. yes...it is indeed a Tobacco Pesticide.
  Philadelphia is more like Winston-Salem-On-The-Delaware than many know....or care to talk about.  (It is SO much easier to beat up on smokers in bars etc.)

[NB: With changes of names and corporate ownership and chemical uses, etc etc, it's hard to have up-to-the minute info on what chemical is made or used by what firm, and when. So, care is needed in wording accusations.]  

  Perhaps FMC considers its profitable helping out of the cigarette industry, and contamination of the products and unwitting smokers, to be a legitimate use of the chemicals...not a "misuse".

  FMC appears to be a threat to public health and, as such, a contributor to those public health costs that so many say they hope to cut...as long as that doesn't inconvenience mfgrs of deadly chemicals.      There are no calls to prohibit cigarette adulteration with ANY pesticide residue or other industrial toxin or carcinogen...or any combination of them all.