Emma Berry

Posts Tagged ‘industrial pollution’

At what point do our local Governments stop treating Wall Street Polluters as if they have a right to destroy the environment and force people to work for slave wages?

Perhaps we should say no when we can no longer even go to our beaches, lake shores and river banks, much less swim in the water that has been polluted by industrial discharge and oil spills.

Perhaps we should say no when  the majority of all animal species have become extinct because of industrial pollution.

Perhaps we should say no, you can’t have a free ride  when we realize that there may not be another generation because slave wages paid by Wall Street corporations, combined with the high prices for food are not sufficient to sustain life.  We already see evidences of this all over the world and the USA is no exception.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that in 2008:

• Of the 49.1 million people living in food insecure households (up from 36.2 million in 2007), 32.4 million are adults (14.4 percent of all adults) and 16.7 million are children (22.5 percent of all children).
• 17.3 million people lived in households that were considered to have “very low food security,” a USDA term (previously denominated “food insecure with hunger”) that means one or more people in the household were hungry over the course of the year because of the inability to afford enough food. This was up from 11.9 million in 2007 and 8.5 million in 2000.