Environments, animals, humans....are we next?!

Hog Farming Article! Check it out!
It is clear that hog farming is surpassed in terms of targeting it as one of the most environmentally problematic industries. When the waste of one hog farm is distributed in lakes, streams and air, it produces as much waste as a small city. Most of us look too the larger corporations that emit carbon pollution to the cause of our issues. When in fact, looking at hog farming we can see that the effects are not as visible to the average citizen, therefore we ignore it. If we visited the lakes, streams and people who are affected by these hog farm byproducts, it would be apparent that this industry has created more damage to society than good.

There is no stopping these industry's, as the larger corporations own them and manage to escape the questionable actions taken against them. If we have taken our own animals and created an industry where we exploit both them and the environment in which we live, what is next? Will we be turning to human's next to fulfill this over need for consumption?

If we turn to human's next, how will we exploit each other? As Karl Marx proposed in his ideology of the world as a consumer, we will eat each other up and destroy ourselves before we stop consumption all together. This notion of destroying each other is a terrifying one and a way of looking at society that is not far off from the path we are headed in.

Private Corporation: Anyting But A 'Natural Person'

The corporations of today are the leaders or controlling powers of the ideologies within society and culture. Predominately we see this in the first world countries such as Canada and the United States. In Elizabeth Campbell's article Corporate Power: The role of the global media in shaping what we know about the environment, it is stated that the United States Supreme Court added the ruling that the private corporation is a 'natural person' (71). This notion of multinational corporations having the same rights, freedoms of speech and influences on society as that of a common citizen of the country is appalling.

When it comes to issues of the environment, there are advertisements and commercials thrown at us on a daily basis as to how corporations are doing their part to support the environment. This allows these powered individuals the ability to manipulate the public and create a positive image for their companies. With reference to the current economic situation, we see the government handing out money to several automobile corporations in hopes to boost their sector. Not publicized, are the effects of what will come out of a reemergence of more cars being produced and how it will effect the environment. Since these corporations control most central news stations and papers, they can eliminate any negative publicity that will reflect poorly on their corporation. This is how these corporations over use the freedom of speech and influence on society to gain what they want. They claim to be using their power to improve the environmental state of the world, when in fact they are hiding some of leading causes for the effects we are witnessing today. Can the government really deem the corporation as being a "natural person"? What makes the environmental situation we face today any more under control when we are not told the truth? Does anyone else feel like this issue of environmental downfall is being turned into a marketing and advertising frenzy?
The presentation touched on this notion of the corporate having the same rights as the citizen. Is this right? Should we be giving them as much power as they hold? Is there any way to stop them, or will they continue to use issues such as climate change to their advertising and marketing towards their money making strategies?