7 May 2009

What is our relationship with money?

Do you know the cause of the increased bacterial resistance and therefore increased vulnerabilities of communities to all kinds of epidemic bugs. Bacteria are increasingly more resistant to antibiotics.

Most major pharmaceutical players are no longer producing antibiotics; they are going for products that have repetitive use ie cholesterol, heart medication. Reason?

Companies are chasing after the listed status. Reason.

Animals are fed growth hormones and antibiotics. Reason?

Home owners are caught in the middle of feuds due to enblock sales. Reason?

Car manufacturers have not switched over to non fossil fuel alternatives even though the knowledge and advantage of the switch have been known for years. Reason.

Nick Leeson, Madoff, William Wise, Jerome Kerviel, Toshihide Iguchi, Liu Qibing, John Rusnak, did the same thing. Reason?

The love of money is behind the explosive and abusive use of antibiotics, not just for disease or prevention of affection but in animal feed to make them fat.

The love of money – attracting investors with the money – at all cost, is the sad reality of the times.

What about our personal life, our individual values and decisions? Are we also driven by money?

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