Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Heart?

I don’t have time to write my diatribe against Abbott Laboratories now, but trust me, my blood is absolutely boiling. If you don’t know what’s happening, read the following:

Official Tribune news:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-070427abbott,0,3375539.story?coll=chi-bizfront-hed

Student movement & "Die-in":
http://www.soapblox.net/chicago/showDiary.do;jsessionid=DDF17927D8F085C25C3A73A483B1D22E?diaryId=3004

International movement:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HKG98945.htm

An overview of their overall "corporate social responsibility plan"....not good if even UNICEF and WHO (conservative organizations) are requesting more:
http://www.patientsnotpatents.org/AbbottsFailedPromise.htm

Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman wrote, “The business of business is business. Period. Nothing else.”

Well, this is not business. This is callousness. In my mind, by knowingly allowing people to die when you have DIRECT POWER to prevent death…this is mortal sin.

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