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Sick Planet - Corporate Food and Medicine (Paperback)
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Sick Planet - Corporate Food and Medicine (Paperback)
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Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and
nutrition as examples of globalisation's success, but this book
argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are
destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the
world. Scientist Stan Cox expertly draws out the strong link
between Western big business and environmental destruction. This is
a shocking account of the huge damage that drug manufacturers and
large food corporations are inflicting on the health of people and
crops worldwide. Companies discussed include Wal-Mart,
GlaxoSmithKline, Tyson Foods and Monsanto. On issues ranging from
the poisoning of water supplies in South Asia to natural gas
depletion and how it threatens global food supplies, Cox shows how
the demand for profits is always put above the public interest.
While individual efforts to 'shop for a better world' and conserve
energy are laudable, Cox explains that they need to be accompanied
by an economic system that is grounded in ecological sustainability
if we are to find a cure for our Sick Planet.
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