THE BENEFITS FROM CORPORATE CAPITALISM.

       What has the corporate world given us? Well for starters, beef, pork and poultry that has more pesticides than any plant food, also containing antibiotics, drugs and hormones. Ocean fish is largely contaminated with heavy metals, mercury, etc.. Fresh water fish are showing high levels of pesticides. Milk cheese and butter carry the same pesticides as meat, plus growth hormones and antibiotics.

     Well how about fresh fruit? Strawberries, raspberries and cherries, they are loaded with pesticides, strawberries being the worst with 300 pounds of various pesticides per acre as opposed to 35 pounds per acre for others. This is a cocktail of 36 different chemicals and 90% of strawberries tested were found to be above the safe level.

     As for apples and pears, they are treated with 36 different chemicals, half of which are neurotoxins, meaning that they cause brain damage. Apples being as badly polluted as strawberries. Tomatoes fair no better, being treated with a variety of 30 different chemicals. Their thin skin doesn't prevent the chemicals entering the fruit, so peeling isn't the answer. The humble potato gets the same treatment, with 29 different pesticides and 79% of those tested were above the safe level of multiple pesticides.

       Well you could always just have a Pepsi, ah, but there has been a suggested link with Pepsi and pancreatic cancer. Well there you have it, all the advantages of factory farming and food production. The corporate food industry is now no more than a branch of the corporate chemical industry.

       This information is from tests done by the American FDA and the USDA and apply to America. The chemical pesticides detected in these studies are known to cause cancer, birth defects, nervous system and brain damage, and developmental problems in children. In other words, if it isn't organic, I think you should be getting worried. However, though this is an American study, I don't think that factory farming and food production is much different in any part of the corporate world of food production 

TOMORROW’S WORLD!!

See the fat cat’s grinning smile

as Corporate Capitalism runs amok,

Chasing profit as it goes

firing millions of ordinary folk.

Raping and polluting land after land,

starting bloody wars.

Toxic waste, sweat shop wages

and oil covered sea shores.

Where have all the flowers gone

beneath this ozone free sky?

To join the birds, to join the fox

on yonder plutonium field to die.

Mercury fish, strontium lamb

trees that never show a leaf,

radio active beaches, toxic streams

good lean BSE-antibiotic beef.

In a world of epidemic, plague and famine

it’s bottled water and chemical food.

Of course, it’s all tested on rats and mice

so you know its got to be good.

Beneath a sky that’s always black,

hurricane winds and endless drought,

its oxygen masks for the toxic air,

corporate profit’s what its all about.

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