Help us out by throwing some cash in the bucket:
Click here to read Hightower's personal message about
REAL CHANGE
(not small change)
Hightower Lowdown
"Everybody does better when everybody does better." -- Jim's dad, W.F. "High" Hightower
In This Issue
Dressed up in their designer suits, they trade in human cargo
The new racketeers
Also in this issue:
- Zapping the beef supply
- Granny d marches on!
- Postmodern piracy
- Suffer the little children
- Hogs at the trough
- Charity begins in the house
- Bill's beer
Do Something!
March's Lowdown
Giving corporations more power to buy politicians of their choice
"For too long," wailed the senator in a heart-tugging cry for justice, "some in this country have been deprived of full participation in the political process."
Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, has never been mistaken for a bleeding-heart liberal, so you can rest assured that his anguish over inequality did not concern the disenfranchisement of minorities or poor people--or any kind of people, for that matter. No, it is the tragic political deprivation faced by America's corporations that moved Mitch to such an outpouring of woe.
[read more]
Stay in the Loop
Sign up for email alerts, from breaking news to weekly commentary:
Search
Subscriber Features
Manage your account by logging in. Don't have an account? Get the Lowdown in the mail every month -- for the unbelievable, ridiculous, low, low price of $15 per year! Save a tree and read it online for just $10 per year!
The General Store
Visit Hightower's General Store, to buy high-power Hightower books and other goodies like that.
Home | Contact | RSS | Privacy policy | Copyright Public Intelligence, Inc., all rights reserved 1999-2010
Zapping the beef supply
What do you like on your burgers? How about radioactive Cobalt-60?
Sara Lee, Cargill, IBP Inc. and other huge corporations that control the beef processing industry have long been lobbying Wash-ington to let them "irradiate" America's red meat supply. Now the spineless Agriculture Department is caving-in, proposing a new rule authorizing the widespread use of radiation.
Beef processing is so dirty that thousands of us consumers die from E. coli and other bacteria every year. Rather than cleaning up their operations and preventing contamination in the first place, the industry simply wants to zap its contaminated meat.
No long-term human tests have been done on the safety of this—you're the guinea pig. Prices will rise too—the irradiation equipment costs $10 million per factory. And your burgers will smell and taste . . . well, irradiated.
To fight this, call Food & Water at 802-563-3300.