The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 24, 1978, Page Page 6, Image 8
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'Corporate
a threat,
By MARK J. IAJNDGREN
Gamecock Staff Writer
The body of the average
American person and the
American continent is being
destroyed by industrial corporations
and exploitive
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Ralph Nader, consumer advocate
extraordinaire, criticized
American corporations and
"corporate socialism" in a speech
at the Carolina Coliseum Wednesday
night.
Nader cited several examples of
corporate exploitation, including
such companies as Ford Motor Co.,
Allied Chemical Corp., Consolidated
Edison utility company
and made repeated remarks about
the Exxon Corporation's thievery
i)i me American pumic.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS
were one of the main
topics of Nader's talk, including
the spill of the chemical kepone
into the James river and the
Delaware Bay. It was "a
example of cruelty,"
according to Nader. The Kepone
was dumped into the river
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and cheaper than any other
process of disposal. The
executives in the Allied corporation
did not go to jail for the
act, according to the consumer
advocate, but the company was
fined $5 million, a "small amount"
to the industrial company, considering
its size, assets and
damage "for poisoning an
ecosystem," he said.
He also cited Ford Motor
Company's cheating on air
pollution regulations which cost
the company $7 million in fines, but
the company profits average
millions of dollars a day.
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laminated by a steel plai t's
dumping of taconite wastes. The
lake will require 500 years to
naturally recover from the
pollution, Nader said. The company
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have to open a landfill pit for future
dumping.
Nader called the pollution of the
environment a form of "silent
violence" and said, "we must meet
this abstract form of environmental
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Chemicals, he said, do not provoke
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not affect the senses and are not
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and water.
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not been proven to be bad.
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