{"id":6353,"date":"2013-01-30T08:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2024-07-06T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T00:59:42","slug":"drug-company-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6353","title":{"rendered":"Drug Company Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DrugCoPollution.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6354\" title=\"Drug Company Pollution\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DrugCoPollution-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Drug Company Pollution\" width=\"791\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DrugCoPollution-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DrugCoPollution-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DrugCoPollution-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DrugCoPollution.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn the subject of green systems of medicine &#8211; allopathic medicine is the biggest polluter by far &#8211; and homeopathy the greenest &#8211; by far. It is estimated that U.S. drug makers have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals in recent years into waterways that often provide drinking water, according to an Associated Press investigation&#8230;<br \/>\nSeems the drug companies are messing up your health indirectly as well as directly. This should be no surprise to anyone. After all, if they are prepared to kill you directly with their drugs, killing the environment and thus you indirectly is a no-brainer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the subject of green systems of medicine &#8211; allopathic medicine is the biggest polluter by far &#8211; and homeopathy the greenest &#8211; by far. It is estimated that U.S. drug makers have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals in recent years into waterways that often provide drinking water, according to an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6353\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drug Company Pollution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55056,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions\/55056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}