93 - Food Workers' Lungs Destroyed: Another Case Study In How Right-Wing Policies Increase Human Misery, Suffering, Pain And Death

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🗓️ 10 May 2007

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Today, we're going to discuss another example of the right-wing letting their ideology trump science, and in the process, increase human misery, suffering, pain and death.It concerns...microwave popcorn, of all things. You wouldn't think manufacturing popcorn would be a dangerous job, that could severely injure, or even kill you. Well, think again.And what about you, eating that popcorn? Has the

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 93 of Blast the Right.
0:23.7	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com, www.TheRationalRadical.com.
0:30.5	Today we're going to discuss another example of the right wing letting their ideology trump
0:35.8	science and in the process increase human misery suffering pain and death.
0:41.2	It concerns microwave popcorn of all things.
0:45.6	You wouldn't think manufacturing popcorn would be a dangerous job that could severely
0:50.2	injure or even kill you.
0:52.4	We'll think again.
0:54.4	And how about you eating that popcorn has the right to allow some hidden danger to remain
0:59.8	in the finished product.
1:01.5	Oh, let's get right into it.
1:03.7	My sources are a long feature article by Stephen Labaton and The New York Times, a New
1:09.5	York Times editorial and letters to the editor, DefendScience.org and Dictionary.com.
1:17.2	Eric Peoples was 27 years old when he started work at a microwave popcorn plant in Jasper
1:23.0	Missouri in 1997.
1:26.0	When he quickly got a promotion from his 6-hour-hour assembly line to the 11-hour-hour
1:31.0	mixing room, he was thrilled.
1:33.4	He'd be preparing ingredients and nearly doubling his salary.
1:37.4	What a lucky break!
1:39.2	Unfortunately, it was not so.
1:42.6	Just 10 months afterwards, the disease hit him.
1:45.7	Eric Peoples started out with fever and chills, doctors misdiagnosed his condition
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