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ESCAPE FROM DARKNESS: A Story of Corruption, Environmental Pollution and Adverse Effects on Children`s Health.

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ESCAPE FROM DARKNESS is a collection of 16 short stories from Heroin and Cornflakes.

Heroin and Cornflakes was born out of the absurdity of a world ruled by profit.   A profit that is allowed to exploit and poison our children without moral restraint.   A profit that allows the world’s children to starve whilst its beneficiaries accumulate vast wealth.  These beneficiaries include politicians, doctors and scientists.

“You have a wonderfully twisty-style….I have no idea where I’ll end up, though you safely navigate a very coherent path to a powerful conclusion.“  Alex Radway

Chapter 1….’Why not put Heroin in our Cornflakes?’

……Another substance found to be every bit as addictive as heroin, is sugar.  Rats which have become addicted to sugar act the same, and have the same brain chemistry as rats addicted to heroin.

So can’t we just stop putting sugar in our tea?

Well, it’s not that simple. We get hooked at an early age and are continued to be fed sugar into adulthood.

How?

Food manufacturers have cottoned on to sugar’s addictive powers. Get your consumer addicted – the earlier the better……

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“When doctors and undertakers meet they always wink at each other.”

W.C. Fields (1880 – 1946)

Around 1 million folk are cremated and over 3 gallons of embalming fluid per person used. That’s an awful lot of vaporized formaldehyde released into the environment.

What other environmental concerns are there?

The EPA estimates that, in 2005, about 3,000 kilograms of mercury was released into the environment by cremations, mostly into the air.........

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Death, Undertakers and the Environment

“When doctors and undertakers meet they always wink at each other.” W.C. Fields (1880 – 1946)
Around 1 million folk are cremated and over 3 gallons of embalming fluid per person used. That’s an awful lot of vaporized formaldehyde released into the environment.
What other environmental concerns are there?The EPA estimates that, in 2005, about 3,000 kilograms of mercury was released into the environment by cremations, mostly into the air.

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Mercury, Light Bulbs and the Mad Hatter

When mercury was introduced into the process of hat making in the 17th century, it became a notoriously dangerous profession.

The symptoms of ‘mercurialism‘ (mercury poisoning) evoked terms such as ‘the hatters’ shakes’ and ‘mad as a hatter’ into everyday speech.

Mercury poisoning became so common among the hatters in Victorian Britain that it has become widely supposed that Lewis Carroll had the condition in mind when he invented the character of the Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

In fact, according to H A Waldron, senior lecturer at the Centenary Institute of Occupational Health, London and Hygiene School of Tropical Medicine, the model for the Mad Hatter was almost certainly a furniture dealer called Theophilus Carter, who lived near Oxford and was well known to Carroll, a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church. Carter was actually known in the locality as the Mad Hatterbecause of his eccentric ideas and because he was in the habit always of wearing a top hat.

Today’s equivalent of the Mad Hatter would appear to be the policy makers that have pushed for the mandatory introduction of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) to replace normal incandescent lighting.

Although CFLs last up to 15 times longer than ordinary bulbs, there is an environmental price to pay. Each bulb contains around 5mg of mercury, which helps convert the electrical current into light.The amount of mercury is tiny – barely enough to cover the tip of a pen – but that is enough to contaminate up to 6,000 gallons of water beyond safe drinking levels.....

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Mercury, Light Bulbs and the Mad Hatter

When mercury was introduced into the process of hat making in the 17th century, it became a notoriously dangerous profession.
The symptoms of ‘mercurialism‘ (mercury poisoning) evoked terms such as ‘the hatters’ shakes’ and ‘mad as a hatter’ into everyday speech. (1)
Mercury poisoning became so common among the hatters in Victorian Britain that it has become widely supposed that Lewis Carroll had the condition in mind when he invented the character of the Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
In fact, according to H A Waldron, senior lecturer at the Centenary Institute of Occupational Health, London and Hygiene School of Tropical Medicine, the model for the Mad Hatter was almost certainly a furniture dealer called Theophilus Carter, who lived near Oxford and was well known to Carroll, a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church. Carter was actually known in the locality as the Mad Hatterbecause of his eccentric ideas and because he was in the habit always of wearing a top hat.
Today’s equivalent of the Mad Hatter would appear to be the policy makers that have pushed for the mandatory introduction of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) to replace normal incandescent lighting.
Energy Star, which is a joint program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Energy, is supposedly helping businesses and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency.

Although CFLs last up to 15 times longer than ordinary bulbs, there is an environmental price to pay. Each bulb contains around 5mg of mercury, which helps convert the electrical current into light.The amount of mercury is tiny – barely enough to cover the tip of a pen – but that is enough to contaminate up to 6,000 gallons of water beyond safe drinking levels,

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Honey Bees, Einstein and Pesticide

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”

This quote has often been attributed to Albert Einstein, and used in many articles in relation to declining bee populations. There’s no evidence he actually ever said it. But by associating his name, it does make people sit up and take notice.

Take notice of what?

The fact that our environment is being systematically poisoned while a select few make millions of dollars aided by the Government.

Why do we say this?

Well…..read more at Heroin and Cornflakes

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Honey Bees, Einstein and Pesticide

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
This quote has often been attributed to Albert Einstein, and used in many articles in relation to declining bee populations. There’s no evidence he actually ever said it. But by associating his name, it does make people sit up and take notice.
Take notice of what?
The fact that our environment is being systematically poisoned while a select few make millions of dollars aided by the government.
Why do we say this?
Well…..

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