great chart via good magazine that displays which of the USA’s largest food producers & corporations are behind your favorite organic foods. always good to know where your dollars go. i didn’t know coca cola owned odwalla. or that pepsi owned naked juice.
president bush has nominated michael baroody to be the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). ironically, baroody’s background is on the other side of consumer safety, serving as executive vice president at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) for the last 13+ years. see any conflict of interest there? as stated on CNN with Lou Dobbs, “you can’t make this stuff up.” from the website stopbaroody.com, baroody fought to allow a higher level of arsenic in drinking water, lobbied to eliminate the rights of Americans exposed to asbestos, lobbied to keep corporate documents regarding unsafe products from the public, worked to immunize corporate CEOs from criminal liability for marketing deadly products to the public, and much more anti-consumer protection measures. should he get the nomination, he is slated to receive a $150,000 severance package from NAM. wow! you can take some action by emailing your senators using the handy form at peopleoverprofits.org. some senators are aware of what a poor choice baroody is to the CPSC and have moved to block baroody’s nomination. but the more voices that weigh in the better.
according to cnn money, exxon earned a record breaking $377.6 billion dollars last year. wow. that registers as making $75,000 per minute in 2006. again, that’s seventy five thousand dollars per minute. holy crap. in the time it took for you to read this post, the kids at exxon would have earned over $10,000. wow.