Forest Hillbilly
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I was going to link a few stories to this, the most recent may be the shooting of the Healthcare CEO
"New York City police officers are using facial recognition technology and a discarded cell phone to identify the man who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson Wednesday morning." (BBC website)
Now Mr Thompson was on his way to meet shareholders. But a potential backdrop to the story is that his Healthcare company had been brought to media attention recently for denying policy-holders access to certain medical care facilities. Something to do with small-print in the policies.
"Some UK social media users have been pouring milk down their sinks and toilets in protest at the trial of a new feed additive that claims to significantly reduce the emission of methane gas in dairy cows."
So the issue for me isn't really about the animal feed, but the fact that milk is a really bad pollutant when it gets into rivers, due to it's ability to blend quickly with water and it's high biological oxygen demand (BOD). This will be the Water Companies problem, though small-scale compared to the following,...
"Behind the record fines announced by Ofwat for the routine dumping of sewage into rivers and seas by three water companies, there is a voiceless victim, one that does not sit in boardrooms, or get a chance to count dividends. It is our rivers and coastal waters, subjected to years of continuous pollution under the noses of the regulators, which are suffering.
In all likelihood the £168m penalties for the already struggling Thames Water, Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water will be followed by fines for the remaining eight water and sewerage companies, all of whom Ofwat is investigating over failure to treat sewage according to the law."
These large organisations are all about maximising profits and paying dividends to shareholders.
Boeing is another company that springs to mind with investigations into 'safety short cuts" in order to reduce costs.
It just seems to me that people's health is being compromised because of inherent attitudes of these companies in cutting operating costs.
I have no idea of the motive for the USA shooter, but it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to think he, or a close relative, had been denied treatment from a Healthcare policy.
"New York City police officers are using facial recognition technology and a discarded cell phone to identify the man who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson Wednesday morning." (BBC website)
Now Mr Thompson was on his way to meet shareholders. But a potential backdrop to the story is that his Healthcare company had been brought to media attention recently for denying policy-holders access to certain medical care facilities. Something to do with small-print in the policies.
Why has new additive Bovaer prompted people to throw Arla milk away?
The new additive aims to cut down on methane emissions from cows, but some have raised safety concerns.
www.bbc.co.uk
So the issue for me isn't really about the animal feed, but the fact that milk is a really bad pollutant when it gets into rivers, due to it's ability to blend quickly with water and it's high biological oxygen demand (BOD). This will be the Water Companies problem, though small-scale compared to the following,...
"Behind the record fines announced by Ofwat for the routine dumping of sewage into rivers and seas by three water companies, there is a voiceless victim, one that does not sit in boardrooms, or get a chance to count dividends. It is our rivers and coastal waters, subjected to years of continuous pollution under the noses of the regulators, which are suffering.
In all likelihood the £168m penalties for the already struggling Thames Water, Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water will be followed by fines for the remaining eight water and sewerage companies, all of whom Ofwat is investigating over failure to treat sewage according to the law."
These large organisations are all about maximising profits and paying dividends to shareholders.
Boeing is another company that springs to mind with investigations into 'safety short cuts" in order to reduce costs.
It just seems to me that people's health is being compromised because of inherent attitudes of these companies in cutting operating costs.
I have no idea of the motive for the USA shooter, but it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to think he, or a close relative, had been denied treatment from a Healthcare policy.
