You would think that if people were dying or being injured, companies would change - but that isn't the case for a very simple reason. Individuals within any assocation of people (public or private) do not usually feel the full responsibility of their actions, and in private companies, they are shielded by shared responsibility. The only pressure they ever feel is to the owners/shareholders of a company, which is to profit - and those shareholders/owners often are the type who live for taking risks for great reward.
Tobacco companies have known for decades that their products have a very high probability rate for causing deaths, yet it took government regulation to prohibit companies from claiming cigarettes are healthy. Can you believe it, companies knowing their product, which has no positive health benefits but directly causes death, were claiming for years that their product was healthy.
Fun fact, I have a DVD of a thousand TV commercials from the 50's thru 70's - for fun, I googled up every single actor endorsement in a 1950's cigarette commercial, confused as to why I never heard of them - surprisingly nearly all died in their 30's or 40's. I don't know, I guess it's a possibility some prominent actors had evidence destroyed when they realized they were taking part in murder, but who knows...
You would think that if people were dying or being injured, companies would change - but that isn't the case for a very simple reason. Individuals within any assocation of people (public or private) do not usually feel the full responsibility of their actions, and in private companies, they are shielded by shared responsibility. The only pressure they ever feel is to the owners/shareholders of a company, which is to profit - and those shareholders/owners often are the type who live for taking risks for great reward.
Tobacco companies have known for decades that their products have a very high probability rate for causing deaths, yet it took government regulation to prohibit companies from claiming cigarettes are healthy. Can you believe it, companies knowing their product, which has no positive health benefits but directly causes death, were claiming for years that their product was healthy.
Fun fact, I have a DVD of a thousand TV commercials from the 50's thru 70's - for fun, I googled up every single actor endorsement in a 1950's cigarette commercial, confused as to why I never heard of them - surprisingly nearly all died in their 30's or 40's. I don't know, I guess it's a possibility some prominent actors had evidence destroyed when they realized they were taking part in murder, but who knows...