
Originally Posted by
TsPoet
Contrary to fictional TV shows, I have never run into someone with some nefarious plot to destroy mankind just because they work for a chemical company.
Way off topic here... but if you're interested in fiction about chemical companies, I suggest the novel Gain by Richard Powers. It's a very thoughtful book (with no villains and no nefarious plots). Ultimately I found it unsatisfying because I read fiction to make me feel, not to make me think; but this book makes the reader think a lot. Essentially, he argues convincingly that (to invert an old truism) the corporate entity alienates the capitalist from the consequences of production, with disastrous results for everyone.

Originally Posted by
TsPoet
methyl bromide (now that's toxic!)
And yet it's these same "benign" chemical companies who sell that stuff to farmers, lobby the states not to regulate it, etc.....
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