Posts Tagged corporate greed

Food Inc. – Trailer

Posted by admin on Thursday, 15 October, 2009

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the [...]

Cigarette Firm Destroyed Info From Studies

Posted by admin on Thursday, 15 October, 2009

Imperial Tobacco Canada destroyed up to 60 early studies that linked cigarettes to addiction and carcinogens, according to a review published Wednesday in the online Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The internal studies, done from 1967 to 1984, were destroyed in 1992 on orders from head office at British American Tobacco in the United Kingdom to avoid “exposing the company to liability or embarrassment,” the authors of the review say.
The studies were later uncovered in British American Tobacco files, which began to [...]

Our Ocean Wonderland – Vaccuship and Aerial Trawler

Posted by admin on Thursday, 15 October, 2009

How will we fish in the future? Find out about the revolutionary ways we can deal with empty oceans… or not.
Take Action now: http://www.greenpeace.org/marine-reserves-now