The Health of Children and Consumers is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights

The Health of Children and Consumers is Threatened by
Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights

http://www.alternet.org/story/153408/the_health_of_children_and_consumers_is_threatened_by_conservative_push_for_corporate_speech_rights?akid986.150508.CR4YgB&rd&t

Some pro-business federal judges have shockingly approved a
constitutional right for big companies to avoid revealing
product dangers on labels.
December 12, 2011

In recent years, corporate lawyers representing industries
whose products touch millions of American lives have stopped
numerous government efforts to better inform the public
about possible health risks with an eyebrow-raising legal
strategy. They have asserted a constitutional right not to
speak, or say more than they want on labels and advertising,
and pro-business federal judges have agreed, rejecting the
public’s right to know.

In cases involving manmade hormones fed to dairy cows, heart
and lung disease caused by tobacco, the nutritional value of
foods contributing to childhood and teenage obesity, and
even radiation emitted by cell phones, the industries keep
returning to court until a business-friendly judge or
majority on an appeals court rules that the First Amendment
includes the corporate right not to ‘speak’ if it could harm
profits.

http://www.alternet.org/story/153408/the_health_of_children_and_consumers_is_threatened_by_conservative_push_for_corporate_speech_rights?akid986.150508.CR4YgB&rd&t