Archive for the ‘human rights’ Category

Feed The People (Not the Cars)

Prices of food staples (such as rice wheat and corn) are on the rise. Since the end of 2006 the price of food has rise by 45%. This rise in prices has left more than 100 million people around the world without enough to eat. In Haiti people are even resorting to eating biscuits made [...]

The Baltimore Sludge Project

Recently, scientist (who were backed by federal grant money) put fertilizer derived from sludge (industrial waste) on 9 yards in a poor black neighborhood in Baltimore. Scientist told the residents that the sludge-fertilizer would protect children if they ingested lead in the soil, yet failed to tell them about the harmful ingredients in sludge.
The fact [...]

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

Between 1932 and 1972 the U.S. Public Health Service conducted an experiment on 399 black men, all in the late stages of syphilis. This experiment was done during a time when there was an effective cure (found in 1947) for the disease but the U.S. STILL permitted the experiment in order to see the effects [...]