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...Food Nation author Eric Schlosser as a co-producer and Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan as a consultant, Kenner's film takes consumers on a journey from the supermarket aisle to meat-packing plants to Congressional food-safety hearings to demonstrate how a handful of corporations often put profit ahead of consumer health, worker safety and the livelihood of the American farmer. (See a video interview with Michael Pollan...
...they get away with that? Ultimately it [comes down to] "veggie libel." We've gotten to the point where food products have more rights than we do as individuals. Corporations are getting too much power. Their only interest is profit. That profit is leading our society to a bad place. The similarities to what happened in the financial meltdown are all too frighteningly similar...
...donate to Key for Hope, a Massachusetts charity, was a “huge success” according to the Office’s Web site. Over 2,000 keys were collected from departments and individuals across campus. Recycling the keys and selling the scrap metal resulted in a profit of $75, which was donated to local food pantries...
Lessig currently serves as the director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard. He is also founder of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and a founding board member of Creative Commons, a non-profit group that focuses on expanding the sharing of creative content...
...will be tough. But if defaulting on a mortgage hurts the local bank, which in turn hurts the local businesses and the community as a whole, then all parties will be much more meticulous when it comes to making financial decisions. Real estate agents who aim to make a profit will have less incentive to be deceptive because they will shop at the same small businesses that will require loans from the local bank to operate, which in turn will require the homeowners to be current on their mortgages to lend out more money...