It's about Ira Rennert, whose company Doe Run Resources owns lead smelters that pollute the environment in Missouri, USA, and in Peru, South America.
This guy commits the worst sin I can think of: damaging the health of children for the sake of making more and more money. As if he didn't have enough millions already.
I could not find this story on Mother Jones's website, but here is a link anyway:
http://www.motherjones.com/
I recommend you subscribe to this magazine, one of my favorites. Or read it at your local library. This article begins on Page 5.
Here is another article on the inappropriately named Doe Run Resources--it should be called Dead Run:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/10/lead-astray
What is your definition of evil? Mine is harming innocent people for your own greed.
According to Mother Jones, a magazine that I trust and respect, Ira Rennert fits that definition to a tee.
-- Roger
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