Is it a flaw in our economic system, or in our moral system? In the similarly comlicated issue of organ trafficking, Nacy Sheper-Hughes points out that the root cause of perpetuated injustices is when one man looked at another and saw in him something that could extend his own life.
Without biotechnological advancments of the last hundred years turning healing into an industry, public health policy could hardly be taited by corporate interests.
Without the undustries that put out so much potential endocrine disrupting products and waste, ambient levels of EDCs would be infinately less.
Without capitalism, environmental ignore-ance would not be profitable... Or would it?
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