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You see, that's not a problem because that burden is not on the ones causing these problems! So this doesn't affect the profit line moving up! On the contrary, it creates opportunities for more profit!
So all is fine people!
Thanks Nestle, Monsanto, the other fucking bastard mega corps.
I think in this case it's more like fuck you DuPont, Dow, ICI and BASF. But fuck Nestle everyday.
Fuck the capitalist dictatorships we live in, where corporations are free to pollute and murder without ever facing criminal charges when they poison everything... because they're also free to poison our political, legal, and judicial systems.
Wait, what're those last two?
ICI is UK/Aus/NZ - Imperial Chemical Industries
BASF is Germany. I also forgot IG Farben.
We should be thanking ourselves because we voted for people who support this.
I wish we would use a better measure than money to describe the societal impact of health problems.
Especially the ones we inflict upon ourselves and each other.
Money is just an abstract of human effort.
There is no amount of effort or money that can correct some of the harms done.
The fertility problem always surprises me. Synthetic estrogens and latex are responsible for low birth rates in almost every developed country, but only religious nuts really ever complain about that.
Globally, infertility impacts about 14% of people. It gets higher with age, and in developed countries, more people are trying to get pregnant at older ages.
"Let's Have Some Phthalates" was an earlier working title to FEAR's Let's Have A War.