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Between 1940 and about 1980, millions of pregnant women were given high doses of the artificial estrogen DES in a misguided attempt to prevent miscarriages, a drug that's been shown to cause female development in biological males across a wide range of animal species.

While both the mothers given the drug and their daughters who were exposed in the womb are acknowledged to suffer from high rates of cancer, infertility and a range of other health problems as a result of their exposure, the official line has always been that the "DES sons" came through their exposure virtually unscathed. Everything I've seen over the last 3 years points to a colossal intersex disaster having taken place with DES that resulted in several million biologically male people being born who've partially developed as female instead of male, a disaster that's been covered up and kept completely hidden from the public ever since. It sounds like the stuff of fiction, and you might think it impossible that those in authority would even attempt to hide a disaster on that scale (let alone get away with it). Nonetheless, there is actually a precedent for such a thing happening, that occurred right around the same time that the DES disaster came to light too: Michigan's Firemaster disaster.

Among the products manufactured by Michigan Chemical Corp. (MCC) were Nutrimaster, a nutrient supplement intended for use in cattle feed, and Firemaster, a highly toxic polybrominated biphenyl flame retardent. MCC had a system where each product was safely packaged in colour coded sacks, so there were no chances of mistakes being made. The system worked well until early 1973, when an inventory supply problem led to a temporary shortage of colour coded sacks, and plain sacks had to be used instead. By coincidence, a new formulation of Firemaster was being trialled at the same time, and this new formulation was almost identical to Nutrimaster in appearance. Murphy's law came into full effect, and a truckload of the reformulated Firemaster was inadvertently delivered to Michigan's largest cattle and poultry feed manufacturer. By the time the mistake was discovered, poisoned animal feed had already been distributed to farmers statewide and fed to their livestock. Rather than own up to what happened, have the contaminated feed recalled and the poisoned animals slaughtered and safely disposed of, the state authorities attempted a cover up instead. They nearly got away with it too, and it was only because one of the farmers whose cattle had been poisoned had samples of the feed analysed by a laboratory outside the state, that the disaster came to light at all. By that time, more than a year had passed, and most of the contaminated produce had already been sold and eaten.

There was a documentary made about the disaster, and the trailer for it can be viewed online:

http://www.taoslandandfilm.com/independent-films/Cattlegate-Michigan-PBB-documentary

It looks like something out of a bad B-grade science fiction movie, but this is a real disaster that resulted in grossly deformed and heavily contaminated cattle and poultry being certified as safe, and basically the entire population of the state of Michigan being poisoned with polybrominated biphenyl. PBB is a highly toxic endocrine disrupting chemical which dissolves in fat and persists in the human body for decades.

I found an article on the Great Lakes Echo which had over a hundred comments from people caught up in the disaster, many of whom have gone on to develop thyroid disorders and other health problems. At some stage since July 2013, the comments section of that article has been replaced with Disqus, and all the comments have vanished. Who knows, perhaps certain people have started taking note of some of the things I'm saying, if so it's the wrong ones unfortunately!

Luckily I took a snapshot of the article as it was on 30 July 2013, before the comments were removed:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-U464GiBN9tYi1JUld2WGZEUVU/edit?usp=sharing

There's one from "Chris" dated 4 June 2010, which shows just how far the state authorities went to cover up what had happened:

"I am a bit disappointed by the tone of this article. Saying the state of Michigan was unprepared and responded slowly to this incident is like saying the Holocaust was a misunderstanding. I lived in Big Rapids during those years and worked for a doctor whose patients were largely farm families, many of whom dealt with PBB contamination on their farms. We watched our patients deal with pain, anger, frustration and fear. They were lied to, bullied, threatened….and so were we because we had the medical records and did the testing to support their claims. It was a frightening and terrible period in Michigan history as, initially, they tried to cover it up. The doctor I worked for had two german shepard dogs and lived in the country. The dogs went missing and he received a 3am call on his private line telling him his children would be next if he testified in Washington, DC. (he sent his children to live with relatives out west for the summer) The office was ransacked in the middle of the night, not for drugs but for patient files (he kept them in a secret place). Blood tests for PBB levels came back negative from Michigan labs, until they were informed we took two samples and sent the other one to California and received positive results from them. (After that the samples matched)The local police would escort him where ever he went until after the hearings in DC.

After all these years, reading this article, bringing it all back, I still cry. I won’t even go into the illnesses we saw in our patients. Farm animals were not the only ones who aborted, and died very young, and wasted away from liver failure. These people ate the meat they raised and drank the milk from their cows. They were primary recipients of the contamination.

I remember one woman who raised chickens. Their feathers were falling out, they could not stand on their own legs, and she was selling them to a large company for human consumption. She cried as she told me she knew the chickens were bad, even though they passed inspection and every government agency told her there was nothing wrong with them, but she had to sell them because the bills were piling up, they were out of money and would loose their business and home if she didn’t. Another man, suddenly incapacitated by arthritic symptoms and liver damage, was told that if he signed a form promising to never sue Farm Bureau for his illnesses, they would send him to another doctor who would guaranty him disability payments for life."

Apparently, Michigan had a population of about 10 million at the time of the disaster, which is similar to the number of people (mothers, daughters and sons) affected by DES.

There are an estimated 2 to 3 million DES sons worldwide. Going on what I've seen, probably around a third of these people were born with visible intersex-related genital abnormalities, a fairly similar percentage have gone on to develop hypogonadism, and the one study of gender identity in DES sons that's ever been conducted found that 150 out of 500 identified as women. DES is a substance that's been shown to cause female development in biological males in a wide range of birds and mammals, and it looks like it does the same in human beings. How do you think the authorities were ever going to react on discovering that they'd inadvertently created between 2 and 3 million biologically male people who've partly developed as female?

Partly as a result of the Firemaster disaster, the chemical industry has gone a long way towards cleaning up its act in the decades since. PBB was banned shortly after the facts of what had happened in Michigan came to light, followed by PCBs, DDT and most other highly persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals. Strict regulations were brought in to protect us from chemicals, and what we're exposed to in out food and drink today is lame by comparison with what took place prior to the 1970s. Yet all of a sudden we're being told that there's a terrible problem with toxic chemicals. Why? Call me a cynic, but I can't help but think it's a cover story being cooked up by the pharmaceutical industry, to provide a plausible-sounding explanation for problems caused by prenatal exposure to DES and other pharmaceutical hormones.