Nicholas Freudenberg

Do Corporations Have a Right to Profit From Endangering Our Health?

Social Sciences lborkowski | March 4, 2014

by Jonathan Heller In his farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned Americans about the growing power of the military-industrial complex. More than 50 years later, Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health at City University of New York, has issued a warning no less grave about "the corporate consumption complex" – the interconnected web of corporations, financial institutions and marketers that, in the name of individual rights, promote and profit from our unhealthy habits. In Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public…