
Fund Drive Special: Profiting Off Food
KPFA - Against the Grain
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Is the Coca Leaf in Nature Reconciling?
The commercial surveillance system that the advertisers have created all across the world is stunning and a cause for serious alarm. It's about getting us to buy high interest rate credit cards, junk food, prescription drugs for illnesses we may or may not have. That's what all this data is being used for. We have no access to this data. We can't challenge it. We can’t correct it. So ultimately, it'sabout maybe the next evolution of capitalism creating an undemocratic society. The Googles and the Facebooks and the Yahoo's create invisible repositories of information about each one of us that they can use,. but it's close to us.
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