{"id":264047,"date":"2010-01-31T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6715049094354778809.post-813218915989776102"},"modified":"2010-02-02T08:09:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:09:23","slug":"the-overpowering-stench-of-the-pharmaceutical-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/264047","title":{"rendered":"The Overpowering Stench of the Pharmaceutical Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_m9QWHVAZMc8\/S2XREXGBgyI\/AAAAAAAACV0\/GdN4BefwjTY\/s1600-h\/PharmaStink.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 234px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_m9QWHVAZMc8\/S2XREXGBgyI\/AAAAAAAACV0\/GdN4BefwjTY\/s400\/PharmaStink.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432978398341333794\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span>Many corporations, lobbyists and establishments favour the pursuit of money over the health of human beings. I don&#8217;t often write about it because it&#8217;s too depressing &#8211; but I got a little out of my system in the <a href=\"http:\/\/paynowlivelater.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/paleoprimal-in-nutshell-videos.html#food\">first Nutshell video<\/a> and last year&#8217;s article about <a href=\"http:\/\/paynowlivelater.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/hfcs-little-man-and-big-business.html\">HFCS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to a radio programme on the BBC last week which so effectively exposes the cynical, grasping, manipulative mentality of the pharmaceutical industry, I just had to share it.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow bloggers regularly expose the same issues, but somehow, hearing such a long and detailed expos\u00e9 from an institution like the BBC, with candid testimonies from former employees, really brought it home. You can read the accompanying news story on the BBC website, or listen to the whole, one-hour program if you have time:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/8478924.stm\" >News Story Summarising the Program<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.bbc.co.uk\/podcasts\/radio4\/fileon4\/fileon4_20100126-2042a.mp3\" >Direct Link to Podcast<\/a><\/div>\n<style>.mymore_813218915989776102{display:none;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6715049094354778809-813218915989776102?l=paynowlivelater.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PayNowLiveLater\/~4\/zEPS9ok1K-U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many corporations, lobbyists and establishments favour the pursuit of money over the health of human beings. I don&#8217;t often write about it because it&#8217;s too depressing &#8211; but I got a little out of my system in the first Nutshell video and last year&#8217;s article about HFCS. I listened to a radio programme on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}