Stacy Malkan
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 To Ralph that means "constructive capitalism," which he explained in his theatrical, run-on sentence kind of way: "Constructive capitalism is where you share the profit with the workers and the Earth from which you made it. You and I are brothers and sisters because of one eternal loving Father, and we should take care of each other and this planet. |
Ann N. Martin
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 In his report, "Cows, Cannibalism, capitalism & Coverup," Dr. Best suggests, "It is easy to misdiagnose CJD as Alzheimer's disease, the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., currently afflicting two to three million people."3 Dr. Best cites 1989 autopsy studies done at the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University that show respectively that 5.5 percent and 13 percenr of Alzheimer patients actually were victims of CJD.4
In a similar survey of neuropathologists it was found that from 2 percent to 12 percent of all dementias in humans were actually CJD. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Newspapers like scare stories, intellectuals don't like capitalism and there's nothing to it."
Who Is Behind the Hype?
Next up was Rebecca James Gadbury, the president of YG Laboratories, who offered interesting explanations about what she called the "Toxic Ingredients Movement." Gadbury was raised on Rachel Carson and started out being a Mary Kay girl when she was 10. When it comes to the Toxic Ingredients Movement, she is not an apologist but an explainer.
Gadbury showed a slide with newspaper headlines generated by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and asked: Who is behind the hype? |
Michael Pollan
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 Also, the fact that they come in the form of durable seeds which can be stored for long periods of time means they can function as commodities as well as foods, making these crops particularly well adapted to the needs of industrial capitalism.
The needs of the human eater are a very different matter, however. An oversupply of macronutrients, such as we now face, itself represents a serious threat to our health, as soaring rates of obesity and diabetes indicate. But, as the research of Bruce Ames and others suggests, the undersupply of micro-nutrients may constitute a threat just as grave. |
| Much more so than the human body, capitalism is marvelously adaptive, able to turn the problems it creates into new business opportunities: diet pills, heart bypass operations, insulin pumps, bariatric surgery. But though fast food may be good business for the health care industry, the cost to society—an estimated $250 billion a year in diet-related health care costs and rising rapidly—cannot be sustained indefinitely. An American born in 2000 has a 1 in 3 chance of developing diabetes in his lifetime; the risk is even greater for a Hispanic American or African American. |
Charles Barber
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 Everything in our conscious life, from feeling pains, tickles, and itches to—pick your favorite—feeling the angst of post-industrial man under late capitalism or experiencing the ecstasy of skiing in deep powder—is caused by brain processes.
—john searle, slusser professor of philosophy, university of california, berkeley, 1995
"You," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. |
| Selznick, and the contemporary figures Ted Turner and Craig Venter with hypomania or bipolar disorder, and further postulated that if it were not for the excessive, even manic energy of these brilliant innovators of American capitalism, America wouldn't be the great country that it is today.
As a fellow mob boss says to Tony Soprano, assuring him that it's acceptable to be in therapy and to take Prozac: "There's no stigmata [sic] anymore." "I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago," Paulie Walnuts tells Tony in one episode. "I had some issues. |
E. Richard Brown
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 For the most part, social transformations were led by the same "unseen hand" that guided the market forces of capitalism; this self-interest provided a limited perspective for social change. Only gradually did leading capitalists and their allies consciously develop broad strategies and supports for the new order they were building. Philanthropic capitalists supported often harsh but hopefully ameliorative charity to control the desperate poorer classes. Others began building universities to meet the new society's needs for trained experts and managers. |
| It became as well the ideology of professionalization, used to gain support from the dominant groups associated with industrial capitalism, to cement the complete dominance of health care by the medical profession, and to raise the incomes and status of physicians as a group.
The obvious advantages to the profession notwithstanding, scientific medicine contained within it the seeds of ultimate destruction for the profession. |
| They were drawn to the profession's formulation of medical theory and practice that exonerated capitalism's vast inequities and its reckless practices that shortened the lives of members of the working class. Thus, scientific medicine served the interests of both the dominant medical profession and the corporate class in the United States.
Nevertheless, a contradiction emerged between the interests of the medical profession and those of the corporate class. As we will see in Chapter 4, the private practice profession and the corporate class clashed over attempts to reform medical education. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 It would appear that Hershey's several thousand employees had everything one would want in life, yet this triumph of paternalistic capitalism was a town in name only: it had no mayor nor any form of elected municipal government—it existed only at the whim of its benevolent dictator, Milton S. Hetshey.
Hershey's mass-produced milk chocolate demanded vast amounts of milk and sugar. The first was supplied from 8000 acres of dairy farms in the surrounding countryside, all, of course, Hershey-owned. |
Mark Schapiro
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 The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz called this inequality of knowledge between consumers and producers "information asymmetry," and pegged it as one of the central flaws of market capitalism.21 The absence of even minimal toxicity data works to insulate the industry from the normal supply-demand dynamic of the market. In a country that prides itself on its entrepreneurial ingenuity, the United States is hitching its faith to a system that reinforces stasis and a potentially dangerous status quo. |
E. Richard Brown
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| It was a great wrenching experience in American history, spreading death and destruction, stimulating industrial development, and producing
*In this book, "corporate philanthropy" refers to philanthropy characteristic of corporate capitalism, especially foundations that are philanthropic corporations controlled by members of the corporate class. upheavals within and between all classes of Americans. A new kind of philanthropy, tailored to these new conditions, emerged in the decades following the war.
The Civil War not only freed the black slaves from legal bonds of slavery. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Given that the pharmaceutical industry is supposedly a prime example of the success of global capitalism, driven by a competitive market for drugs, why do we not see more price competition? Some aggressive competition occurs in the closed-door negotiations between industry and such large purchasers of drugs as health maintenance and other organizations. For my individual patients who pay out of pocket, there appears to be relatively little variation in price among the drugs. |
E. Richard Brown
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| Gates, the transition figure from unbridled individualism to the discipline of the corporation, provided systematic methods and a rudimentary strategy for asserting corporate capitalism's needs for supportive social institutions. Junior, emerging gradually as the nation's foremost representative of modernism in corporate relations with labor and the public, brought a refinement and sensitivity to the philanthropic work being developed by Gates. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Yet as Elliott writes, "Consumer capitalism works, at least in part, by presenting consumers with a vision of the good life. This vision of the good life suggests the ways in which a consumer's own life does not measure up, and which could be remedied by the consumer product. You could be hipper, sexier, not just liked but well-liked, if only you would buy what we are selling." (An interesting aside to this is the history of cosmetic surgery. |
David R. Montgomery
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 While it is difficulr to reconcile current ttends with this vision for an agrarian economy, a reoriented capitalism is not unimaginable. After all, today's quasi-sovereign global corporations were inconceivable just a few centuries ago.
Agriculture has experienced several revolutions in historical times: the yeoman's revolution based on relearning Roman soil husbandry and the agtochemical and green revolutions based on fertilizer and agrotechnology. Today, the growing adoption of no-till and organic methods is fostering a modern agrarian revolution based on soil conservation. |
E. Richard Brown
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| As evidence from the historical record will show, the programs of foundations earlier in this century were explicitly intended to develop and strengthen institutions that would extend the reach and tighten the grasp of capitalism throughout the society.
In medicine the major objectives of foundations were: to develop a system of medicine that would be supportive of capitalist society; and to rationalize medical care to make it accessible to those whom it was supposed to reach but at the least cost to society's resources. These objectives created their own contradictions. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 It is also unfortunate that conservative politicians and pundits have been led to believe it is their mission in life as philosophical champions of capitalism to defend the corporate world, even international corporate conglomerates run by those who eschew the very foundations of conservatism. Conservatives will cry that I must be a liberal or environmentalist fanatic. In fact, I am a conservative and have been all my life.
Capitalism is very different from the opportunistic system modern corporations have invented for themselves. |
Carlo Petrini
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 These human activities are strongly influenced by the relationship between man and nature, an intimate connection which has changed radically since the rise of industrial capitalism.
Nature has become an object of domination, and we can see the effects of this if we consider what has been done in the so-called food and agriculture sector. At the end of World War II, in response to the needs of a hungry world, this sector underwent a complete transformation, immediately adhering to the technocratic ideology. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 By 1660, other opportunities occurred elsewhere, and thousands of small proprietors left the island, and sugar, slavery, and petty capitalism established the monoculture which was to be the common pattern all over the Caribbean. The first of the dissatisfied whites left to try their luck on other islands and in the Carolinas and Virginia, which at an early stage established a close relationship with the West Indies in general and Barbados in particular. |
Carlo Petrini
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| The harm that is being done in China in the name of development is incalculable, and the system, though nominally communist, is in fact the embodiment of perfect capitalism: political homogeneity, uncontrolled exploitation of labor, and exploitation of the natural environment with no thought of the future. We need to promote a strong international reaction, not by increasing existing tariffs or imposing new ones, not by seeking complicity, but rather by rejecting such an unfair system, and making the Chinese respect the environment and their workers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And the result of this lack of ethics education is a nation that pursues capitalism in all its forms without applying appropriate ethics.
This is exactly how we ended up creating companies like Merck, which sells drugs like Vioxx. This is how we created Enron, a company that deceived an entire country and took advantage of people in order to generate profits for itself. This is how we ended up with the WorldCom fiasco, the Disney meltdown, and the horrifying modern day FDA. It is a lack of ethics that has created many of the problems in this country. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Americans believe that greed is good, that the free market can do no evil, and that the highest expression of capitalism is only revealed through the individual expression of personal greed.
Maybe not all Americans believe this, but the vast majority do. And so it was no surprise that when Enron was cooking its books, creating "profits" out of thin air, and screwing California out of billions, all the Americans involved just went along. To which Americans am I referring? Well, let's see...
First we have the Enron traders, who were caught on tape saying, "Burn, baby, burn! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I think the suit is a symbol of greed, capitalism and disconnection with humanity. It's also a symbol of a disconnect with the self, because by wearing a suit, we take on a business personality. You suppress your heart and your intuition, and you rely on, project and expose only your intellect. And that's too bad, but that's the way society operates today. Everybody wants to hear your intellect. They don't want to hear about your humanity or your connection with yourself or the people around you.
But don't let me be a pessimist; some of that is, in fact, changing. |
Carlo Petrini
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| What is vanishing is a way of living in the world and producing food that is no longer compatible with the rhythm of industrialized economic globalization— a lifestyle that cannot coexist with a capitalism of the most extreme and selfish individualism. What we are left with is the depreciation and deterioration of all common goods: goods such as the earth and water, peace and happiness. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, we are the home to fast food chains that we franchise all around the world so that we can export disease to other countries in exchange for making a buck in the name of capitalism. We are the creators of the candy bars and the carbonated soft drinks that are now known around the world. We have taken a population that was relatively healthy fifty years ago and we have turned it into a highly diseased population, simply by altering the food supply.
And people say, oh no, that's not true, people are living longer now than 50 years ago. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's not taught in our public schools, it's not an element of free-market capitalism, it isn't something propagated by the press, and it certainly isn't practiced by the current government administration. As a population, we don't seem to understand that compassion is important.
The next step toward ending cruelty is to stop meeting violence with more violence. If the problem is violence, then solving it will require a different approach, such as compassion, negotiation, or even an apology. The predominant mindset in response to terrorist attacks, for example, continues to be revenge. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 The Soviet Union was egging on two of its client states, Egypt and Syria, to wage another war on Israel, in the interest of pitting Israel's allies, the United States in particular, against the oil-rich Islamic nations on whom now even the United States was dependent for the most indispensable commodity of industrial capitalism. The desert oil kingdoms in turn were maturing, enjoying high birth rates, growing tremendously wealthy, modernizing, and chafing under U.S. corporate domination. |
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