You won't believe where Silly Putty is hiding in your food! (gross but informative)

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36. I was commenting on a specific post that claimed our government was trying to poison us.

Our government is NOT trying to poison us, the corporation IS trying to poison us (Or just doesn't care if we are slowly poisoned by eating their food). They (the corporations) merely want short term profits no matter what. Yes, corporations are at fault but I do not believe free market forces will do any good.

Free market forces and capitalism are what caused this short sighted profits at all cost problem. Allowing a handful of anonymous shareholders, investors and boards of directors to make decisions that impact all of our lives is draconian but it is exactly how our capitalist economic system is structured.

When a corporation fires thousands of employees we get mad at out government instead of getting mad at the corporation that actually did the firing.

I blame American citizens for putting up with capitalism's dysfunctions for so long. Except for Occupy, there has been very little push back against this feudal economic system.

It would be great if we could get out federal government to stop letting corporations put poisons in our foods. Some EU countries are able to do it. But since we give all the wealth and power to anonymous corporate executives and investors, these people will always use their wealth and power to overturn laws that prevent them from maximizing profits at the cost of slowly poisoning other less powerful people. Until you take away their wealth and power, corporations will constantly be looking to cut cost and make a profit no matter who suffers.