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The wireless industry IS putting a gun to our heads
by selling a product (the cell phone) which could cause
development of brain tumors from prolonged use.
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This opinion piece
“How to Force Ethics on the Food Industry”, recently published in the New York Times, caught my attention. It is written by Michael Mudd, a former executive vice president of global corporate affairs for Kraft Food, who talks about the role of food and beverage industry in the obesity epidemic. The comparison between the food and wireless industries is striking. “The industry is guilty [of its role in the obesity epidemic]”, he writes, “Because it knew what the consequences of its actions might be.” The wireless industry knows that wireless technology carries health risks. “Instead of acknowledging this and taking corrective action to sell a better product more responsibly, [the food industry] strayed from the honorable business of feeding people appropriately [substitute “providing people with less health damaging communication services”] to the deplorable mission of ‘increasing shareholder value’ by enticing people to consume more and more … products…
“‘We’re just giving people what they want. We’re not putting a gun to their heads’.” Well, in fact, yes, literally, the wireless industry IS putting a gun to our heads by selling a product (the cell phone) which could cause development of brain tumors from prolonged use.
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