What commercial product helps promote or produce the most suffering on the planet?

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Answer 1

Is this a quiz?

1-OIL.
2-Processed food.
3-Religion. (It can be considered a commercial product.)

Answer 2

One that might surprise all you 'first worlders' out there.

Powdered baby milk ( formula ).

This pernicious product is being peddled like certain other white powdery substances all around the world, but most actively in the very places where it helps the least, and does the most damage.

The so-called 'Third World'. For decades they have actually been indoctrinating simple people that this cr*p is 'better' than the stuff that has been nurturing human babies for thousands upon thousands of years.

The substances themselves are bad enough, but the worst is that the water that generally gets used to mix it is contaminated, and is infecting the babies with all manner of ailments. Plus the people who are earning the lowest incomes in the world are being coerced into substituting a natural product that is available free from the mother with a commercial one that they have to pay for, and pay, by their income standards, dearly.

Added to this is the total absence of the natural antibodies that breast milk is designed to transmit to the infants.

And all in the name of 'commerce' ! :-(((

Shame on the lot of them, you, and they, all know who they are.

Answer 3

This is a great question.
Wow.
Um.
Food.
I know, seems absurd - but lets take something as simple as ketchup.
My tomatoes are grown in california with lots of irrigation from a river that is almost dry, covered with lots of chemicals to kill bugs and deplete the soil, picked by migrant workers, driven across the US to Pennsylvania (all that gasoline), packaged in plastics, driven to a national distribution center for my grocery store in Iowa - then driven to a distribution center in the midwest - Chicago - then driven to my store here in Detroit.
That bottle of Ketchup has gone on a nicer vacation on the way to my store shelves than I ever have.
And I take it totally for granted - the enviormental damage, the exploited labor, etc.
There is so much waste, in so many ways that are related to how we eat....

Answer 4

This might seem strange, but I would say the answer is luxury products. After all, look at what people will do to one another to get more than what they have. Look at the credit card debt in our country becasue we haven't learned to live within our means. And even if a person has learned to live within their means, how much time to they spend fantasizing that they have more than they do?

Answer 5

Processed and genetically modified food and health products. Companies like Kraft and McDonalds that maked "food" that is virutally void of nutrition at best and harmful at worst. Did you know that McDonalds has added aluminum to cheese so it will melt 4 seconds faster? Did you know that there is aluminum in virtually all powder food products so it doesn't clump? That means Tang, Mac & Cheese powder, baby formula and even baking powder - which is in every piece of bread, cake, cracker and cookie that you eat. Did you know that 1 in every 150 children in America has Autism (1 in every 90 boys born) and it looks like the cause is a combination of heredity and environmental toxins - like aluminum, teflon and mercury?

Peace!

Answer 6

Brill question. I'm not worthy. Going with "clothing" - just because I've been watching some stuff about sweat shops in third world countries lately. For the millions of women and girls that are robbed of life - because the scale is so large.

Answer 7

Television.
My cousin's perfume is a close second. We think she single-handed killed the ozone layer some days.

Answer 8

Religion.

Answer 9

Cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, alcohol, Styrofoam, gas and oil, cars (pollution)... I'm sure there is more...

Answer 10

religion is very commercial and sadly makes many sad