What they don't tell you could kill you... and they know it

Mikaela says:
The following is yet another example of why we need government oversight of corporations. This is why we need to separate Congress from lobbyists. This is why we need to be skeptical of Presidents with ties to Big Business.

Because Big Business lies and hides and poisons us when no one is watching. And EPA is more and more eviscerated with each passing day. Woo-hoo!

This from Democracy Now:
Independent Review Finds DuPont Chemical A “Likely” Carcinogenic In other news, the chemical giant DuPont continues to draw scrutiny over its use of a controversial chemical in the manufacture of materials used for food packaging. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced an independent scientific review had concluded the chemical, known as Zonyl, should be considered a “likely” carcinogen. Zonyl is used in the manufacture of hundreds of types of food containers and appliances. Studies have shown it can rub off of packaging and contaminate food with a potentially carcinogenic compound known as PFOA. In November, a former DuPont chemical engineer revealed the company had hidden studies showing that the human body absorbs the chemical at three times the permitted level.

To read more about Dupont's flagrant and negligent hiding of health effects of its toxic chemicals, read (or listen) here: from Living on Earth -- Dupont in Sticky Situation over Teflon chemical. It's actually an amazing story about ranchers fighting back after they lease their land to Dupont for waste and subsequently lose most of their cows to madness and unexplained bleeding to death. They start a class-action suit and get yelled at for their trouble by the town, who worries about losing the Dupont plant and all the associated jobs -- even though women working in the plant keep having babies with birth defects! It's as though Marx never warned us...