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In reply to the discussion: How Pharmaceuticals Came To Be The 4th Leading Cause Of Death In America [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...what we see is a larger picture wherein one part of the society we've allowed to evolve poisons the environment and everything in it for profits. The mining and energy interests dig up the poisons from below, and then begin the process of delivery of their products into our bodies with the help of engineers, chemists and scientists. Many of whom work in or graduated from public universities. With tax dollars. Great return on the 'ol investment, eh?
The manufacturers then get a shot by incorporating these poisons in, spraying them on or adding them to various products we will end up ingesting -- by lathering, laying and/or inhaling it into our bodies (and Rubber Duckies if you still chew on those). Once there, these chemicals run havoc in our bodies. Mimicking other chemicals and generally disrupting DNA function, causing cells to metastasize and our own immune system begin to attack what they were designed to protect.
We are poisoning ourselves with our progress. And you may thank science, greed and our own complacency for it. Without all of us working together and the scientists with their ''pure theory and objectivity'' which ends up allowing them to create weapons of mass destruction which threatens the whole planet. We'd have never made it this far. Because assholes.
- Only to peter-out it would seem......