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"If enough Americans refuse to buy chemically laden products, the message to corporations and industry becomes clear: consumers are increasingly educated about how chemicals can affect their immune systems and corporations will have to do business according to the precautionary principle, marketing products that are proven to be safe and chemical free, in order to increase the bottom line. CLEAN GREEN. Manufacturers of household cleaners are not required to list toxic ingredients on their product labels even if those products contain toxins." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"As well, right-to-know regulations should be extended to the overseas operations, particularly in lesser developed countries, of U.S. corporations and those of other major industrialized nations, encompassing not just testing practices, but environmental and human rights practices as well. [BEGIN BOX] According to Horst Rechelbacher, CEO of Intelligent Nutrients "Lowering safety and production standards and product quality to increase bottom-line profits, while knowingly and deceptively selling consumers inferior, defective, or unhealthy products, has long been a standard business strategy." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Isolating an immigrant demographic and catering to their taste buds also helps. corporations term this phenomenon "nostalgic trade." The football-shaped, red-fleshed mamey sapote grows in Cuba, as well as in southern Florida. Most Americans are unfamiliar with the fruit, but Miami's Hispanic population loves eating it fresh or as the main ingredient in a delicious milk shake called a batido. Most places outside Miami sell powdered mamey batidos, but fresh ones are light-years better." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Today, medical corporations are studying vin-camin, the active ingredient in itongongo for its effects on hypoglycemia and cerebral metabolism. Benjamin says locals use it the same way nomadic tribes have for millennia: to cure toothaches and facilitate lactation. When rubbed on postpartum mothers' breasts, exudates in these heart-shaped galactagogues increase milk flow. Cameroonians consume medicinal plants the way Westerners use Advil or Nyquil. The majaimainjombe, or blood-of-an-animal plant, is used as a pain reliever. The oil palm counteracts everything from measles to hernias." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Major corporations such as Unilever in the Netherlands and the International Minerals and Chemicals Corporation in Illinois (makers of Ac'cent—MSG) undertook studies, but eventually gave up on the fruit because they found the active ingredient too complex to stabilize and synthesize. It looked like yet another example of WAWA, an acronym for the region's many business failures: West Africa Wins Again. In the late 1960s, a young biomedical visionary named Bob Harvey attended a lecture by Bartoshuk, whose speaking engagements at West Point were classified as top secret by the U.S." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"These corporations are not paying these physicians or anybody else out of disinterested philanthropy. They expect something." Mr. Jones's testimony that day raised questions about pharmaceutical executives' often repeated claims that they needed to charge high prices to cover the cost of scientists working to discover new drugs. Mr. Jones said it was common practice in the industry to overstate research costs by recording some of the spiraling marketing expenses as "research and development" on the accounting books." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "At the same time, state legislatures should stop professors and scientists at public universities from taking cash and gifts from corporations. And the universities should fire professors who say they are the authors of papers that were actually written by ghostwriters working for the industry. Students are expelled for plagiarizing another's work. Professors should suffer the same consequences." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"As large corporations made similar in-roads into organic foods, they lobbied the U.S. Congress to dilute organic standards so they could use more synthetic ingredients and still call their products organic or natural. The only insurance consumers have against these changes is the maintenance of rigid and dependable standards that determine what is and is not organic, along with product labeling that accurately and completely identifies product ingredients." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"But we may question what impact the Internet and the computer revolution should have on the valuation of existing corporations. New technology will always have an impact on the market, but should it really raise the value of existing companies, given that those existing companies do not have a monopoly on the new technology?14 Should the advent of the Internet have raised the valuation, over the 1990s, of the Dow Jones Industrial Average—which until 1999 contained no Internet-related stocks?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Most cosmetics and personal care corporations exhibit either outright disrespect for the public's right to know the dangers in everyday products, or else they abuse or attempt to redefine words such as "natural," so as to thwart the average person's best intentions at self-education and self-protection. While to any reasonable person "natural" implies something taken directly from nature, the law doesn't prohibit synthetic chemicals from being included in products labeled with the term. Some products labeled as natural even contain nothing but synthetic ingredients." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Today some global corporations are wealthier than all but a handful of nation-states, and the largest among them employ more people than the population of the majority of the world's nearly 200 nation-states. IN CONCLUSION Societal evolution is a long-term process, with roots extending back to our species' prehistory. It is on the whole irreversible, and it is nonlinear, beset with periodic bifurcations. The current bifurcation takes human community-building from the nation-state to the planetary level." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"This is why farmers continue to degrade the soil, why corporations continue to buy hardwood from the rainforest, why industries continue to pollute the air and water. This is why the world continues to spend $750 billion per year on armaments, rather than on food, sanitation, housing, and education. Someone, somewhere, believes the change would not be in their own best interest. Yet, much as we may resist change, we cannot prevent it. If the patterns of the past hold up (and there is every reason to expect that they will), change is going to come faster and faster." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Psychologists are consulted by large corporations to assess prospective employees by testing their colour preferences. How does it work? Colour in lights, food and surroundings is believed to stimulate the nervous system to increase hormone production, thus affecting the body's chemical and energy balance. Colour therapy is as old as the Healing Temples of Light and Colour which stood at Heliopolis in Ancient Egypt. It has been used for thousands of years by the Chinese." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Major corporations find that meditation lifts the production levels of their staff, and sporting organisations that athletic performance is enhanced. High-powered business and professional people, politicians, office workers—in fact, people from all walks of life—have discovered the inner peace and outer health results from meditation. Instead of taking pain-relieving drugs, tranquillisers, sleeping pills and anti-depressants, they are meditating. If everyone meditated, there would be much less need for expensive medical treatments." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"They had not noticed that the whole capitalist institution had been trussed up with so many chains, wires, red tape, and complications, it no longer functioned like the freewheeling, moneymaking corporations of the nineteenth century. Meanwhile, corporations in China—a communist country—had their hands and feet free to eat our lunches and kick our derrieres. The entire homeland economy now depends on the savings of poor people on the periphery to keep it from falling apart. Americans consume more than they earn." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"BEGIN BOX] Corporate Social Responsibility An October 25, 2007, Neiv York Times four-page supplement, "Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR), reported on an international meeting in San Francisco of more than 1,000 business leaders from a range of corporations and industries. Their goal was to create a sustainable and environmentally sensitive global economy, based on safe technologies, and energy and public health concerns. Attendees included Nike, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, and representatives of other major food and safe household cleaning product companies and industries." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Instead of encouraging the kind of transparency that a democracy should require of its corporations, Eli Lilly fights for its right to hide itself beneath the dark mud of corporate secrecy. The company is not protecting trade secrets; it is protecting information about potentially lethal adverse effects, including diabetes. Unlike earlier Lilly public relations successes, in the case of Zyprexa the truth came out with a big bang.22 Alaskan lawyer and heroic psychiatric reformer Jim Gottstein obtained the sealed documents." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Most researchers are hired and sponsored by large drug corporations whose main interest lies in subduing and eliminating the symptoms of disease, not the disease itself. The main motivating force behind today's health care system, or shall I say, sickness care system, is the incessant need or greed to amass money, power, and control. The desire to help humanity to achieve health and vitality is shared only by those doctors and health practitioners who have genuine love and compassion for their fellow human beings." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Even some of the largest corporations can no longer afford to pay for their sick employees' medical insurance while expanding their businesses at the same time. Just like the US at large, they borrow money to keep their companies afloat. Many are cutting back on their work force, and the employees with the worst health records are the first to go. Having established the fact that leaving the safeguarding of one's health to government agencies is a foolhardy approach, let us return to the core problem in any serious health crisis, cellular starvation." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"De-"Centralized" Corporate Life As we consult with leaders from large corporations, we often see people who neither effectively manage their health nor live their passions. By conforming to demanding corporate cultures, they may avoid rocking the boat, but they end up with gut-wrenching internal conflicts because they're not doing what they truly enjoy and quickly fall out of integrity with themselves. Crab another chance to use your higher brain. Regardless of your job, find ways to enjoy it by using the best of your strengths and passions." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "All groups, whether they are teams, corporations, community organizations, families, or marriages are deeply affected by all of the Brilliant Health practices. In fact, the healthiest groups embody each part of this model. And we're equally optimistic about interpersonal relationships. In groups we are highly capable of learning, changing behavior, and making judgments that lead to healthy communal choices. As we've seen, all of the practices in the Brilliant Health model are synergistic, working together to create an overall feeling of well-being." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "And the two of us teach the Brilliant Health model to some of the biggest corporations and hospitals in the United States. The Creation of the Brilliant Health System OUR STORY It all began with a simple idea. We wanted to improve our lives. So we decided to interview the five happiest people we knew. What those first five said was so intriguing we made what felt like a daring decision: to set out on an ambitious and ultimately exhilarating three-year journey to interview profoundly happy people all over the world. What a great idea for a book, we thought." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "Nigel's insight has been extremely helpful in our work with patients, leaders of global corporations, and our students in high-pressure postgraduate programs. With Tony's OCD, overriding his symptoms with Centrality is an extremely positive and creative response to a problem. But it isn't a cure-all. We need a balance. And sometimes, at the other end of the spectrum, Centralities mask important physical signals our bodies are transmitting. When William Shakespeare used the phrase "too much of a good thing" in As You Like It, he couldn't have issued a better warning about Centralities." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Benefits obligations are sinking some corporations and threatening others, placing pensioners and workers in peril. Furthermore, nearly 40 percent of the workforce is the "uninsured employed" today, including the small employers, and that trend is relentless. I found my audience. I have delivered keynote addresses to the annual meeting of the National Business Group on Health and the Consortium Health Group (the leadership of the major "Blues"). I have spent hours with the executives of United Health Group and Cigna and their major account administrators." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Regulation of the global economy by the WTO and the IMF alone cannot effectively contain the naturally destructive forces of self-serving multinational corporations unless such regulatory bodies are themselves subject to the democratic oversight provided by a world federation. Will multinationals vigorously resist this? Although some responsible multinational corporations will recognize that such global laws will ultimately be for their own good, others will, of course, oppose such laws." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Given that international and transnational exchanges of goods and technologies are in the hands of transnational corporations, national governments are unable to ensure the viability of the nation's economy, and given that pollution knows no frontiers, they are likewise unable to guarantee the physical integrity of their territory. Even if they are large and wealthy, nation-states cannot survive in isolation; a condition of their self-maintenance is that they produce viable conditions for the states with which they are economically and politically linked." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"When I worked at corporations as an engineer, I had a friend who used his thoughts in this way when it came to where a romantic relationship might lead. I'm not saying that he did so consciously. During the times when I watched the process, it appeared that his relationship imaginings had been going on for so long that they were habitual and unconscious. I was fascinated by how he would play out scenarios in his mind, and the predicaments that he would find himself in as a result." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Our diets and health are unfortunately largely controlled by three giant sectors and driving forces of the economy: food and agricultural corporations, including processed food giants; pharmaceutical companies; and the chemical and manufacturing industry, which aims to create unnaturally occurring products that may be superior in some ways to naturally occurring ones, yet incredibly harmful to humans in other ways." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Modern-day corporations act more like small governments, complete with massive bureaucracies, dictatorial heads and board rooms filled with corruption, intrigue and collusion with those in political power. These behemoths are not free market entities, but rather exist as a merger between capitalism and socialism, something that once was known by its true name: fascism or corporatism. corporations are impersonal, bureaucratic, slow to change, resistant to criticism, and rely on incestuous relationships with governmental power structures for their continued existence." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

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