Corporate ownership and direct control of regulatory agencies do not end with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses kid gloves on U.S. corporations that pollute and the EPA is silent on pharmaceutical and medical toxins.

It's clear that the way our national government is influenced by corporations is having an appalling effect on our health, and on the health of the plants, animals, fungi and myriad wee beasties with whom we share the planet.

The sad reality is that we're distracted by mass media influenced by their sponsors to keep us focused on the wrong problems.

Whether global climate change is an issue that will directly impact the vast majority of humans or not, it is clear that the environmental toxins that issue forth from point-source and distributed products are a greater threat to human and planetary well-being, yet they receive only a tiny percentage of coverage by mass media.