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Profits Over People
How Corporations Poison Us and Get Away With It
If you ever wondered what late-stage capitalism looks like, it’s not some dystopian future, it’s a Teflon pan quietly giving you cancer while Johnson & Johnson sells talcum powder that might kill you in one country and bans it in another.
It’s leaded gasoline ruining your child’s brain while oil execs toast another quarterly bonus. It’s multinational giants knowingly pushing toxins into our homes, our food, our bodies, then shrugging and cutting a check when they finally get caught.
When profit is the only god, human lives become just another cost of doing business.
Teflon, that miracle non-stick coating that made cooking a breeze and scrubbing pans obsolete, also just so happened to coat your lungs, your blood, and your organs with PFOA, a toxic chemical now found in 99% of humans on Earth. It’s what scientists call a “forever chemical,” because it doesn’t break down. It just sits in your body, messing with your immune system for all eternity.
DuPont, the company behind Teflon, knew as early as the 1960s that PFOA was dangerous. Lab animals exposed to it developed grotesque tumors, workers got sick, and babies were born with deformities. But DuPont didn’t stop, they didn’t even warn the public. They just buried the data, paid…
