Your Opinion: Consequences of corporate manipulation

Dear Editor:

If you are interested in reading a fast-reading book that is part adventure, part intellectual exploration and just pure fun, I would recommend “Rust — The Longest War,” by Jonathan Waldman. It explains why Republicans rile against the EPA. They work at the behest of the lobbyist for the corporations that employ them.

There is enough factual evidence that demonstrates corporations are poisoning the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. Just about everything we eat and drink that comes out of a can exposes Americans to the endocrine disrupting agents that are at the heart of corrosion preventing epoxies lining food and beverage cans. All of the modern industrialized countries of Europe have banned these endocrine disrupting agents. And for this reason American corporations have to comply by putting their products in cans that meet the law in Europe where they sell their products.

American corporations spend hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the political campaigns of politicians in Congress and state legislatures to allow them to make their products without interference from the EPA.

The pharmaceutical corporations know that it is more profitable to treat all kinds of cancers with their drugs than it is to find a cure.

The fossil fuel corporations are fully aware that fracking not only poisons the water that people drink but the air we breathe and contributes to greenhouse gases.

Corporations and the wealthy elite have corrupted the political system so they can profit in the billions of dollars without too much government regulation. The corporate media with few exceptions spend very little of their time investigating the rampant abuse of the public by corporations.

This situation may not change in the future. Half of the American public do not even bother to vote and evidence shows that many do not take the time to be an informed voter. Many who do vote cast their vote subject to dog-whistle policies for a demi-God running for office.

When you hear politicians share their ignorance on climate change and global warming I don’t know what is worse — their stupid statements or the fact that so many people voted that person to office.