Terrible Cruelty to Animals

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...onment-ngfood/

better late than never. soil day was the 5th.

you know, people in general find history boring. i love it...and you'd think enough would study it to learn from it. but, we don't.
the romans knew full well that lead was deadly-they used it anyway, not caring that the mining of lead killed the peasants extracting it-because, who cares about some peasants. they used it in plumbing (chemical sympol PB-plumbum, latin for lead) because it was cheap and easily workable.
not long ago, the oil industries fought tooth and nail to keep lead in gas-the main reason to use lead? to stop the knocking in engines. they argued that since lead is 'natural' it can't be harmful-a type of 'logic' used by michele bachmann not long ago in talking about carbon dioxide.
now, last i checked, we still only have one livable planet. so, if we keep mucking it up-well, where's everyone going to go?

The only thing the food companies care about is profit. They want to make as much money as they can and they don't care how they do it or what the repercussions are. If they found a way to grow food in 30 seconds but it caused cancer, I'm sure they would do it any way (if they thought they could get away with it).