When Will the Corporate Killing Stop?
When an organization produces a product that kills people, then keeps it on the market and continues to promote and sell it even though it is fully aware that its product is continuing to kill people – in its homeland to boot – by the tens of thousands, what would you think of such an organization? Most of us would agree that this is criminal conduct and many might conclude such an organization is guilty of virtual genocide. You would think too would you not, that such conduct would result in the perpetrators and masterminds of this operation being brought to book and made to stand trial. After all, if you recklessly kill or maim just one person through some criminally irresponsible act, such as dangerous driving for example, you would rightfully expect to have the book thrown at you. If your actions caused the death, say, of dozens of people, you would expect no mercy. If you killed thousands… Ah yes, but you are not a pharmaceutical manufacturer. When you are a pharmaceutical giant
