Dear students, please comment on Elias’s “Toxic Cosmetics?” post, paying particular attention to, and commenting on, the choices he has made in conveying his message. You may submit your observations, RESPECTFUL criticism, or questions.
I agree with what Carly has to say on this, specifically on how it is frightening to realize how much cancerous chemicals humans, especially Americans, lather onto their bodies on a daily basis. Equally if not more so frightening for me however, is the fact that there are no laws or regulations in place that ensure that a cosmetic bottle that says “all natural” or “pure organic”, is legitimately “all natural” or “pure organic”. Therefore, by trusting in labels such as these consumers are at a high risk of applying these dangerous chemicals on their skin all the while thinking that they are doing their bodies’ a favor. In the “Democracy Now” debate it was even said that there are a number of corporate monster cosmetic companies today that follow this abhorrent practice of putting false labels on their products, all the while swimming in the seas of profit that come from their ill-gotten gains.
The fact that this atrocity is going on today in The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave serves as a startling snapshot of where our country is at today. America is losing its integrity. One question to consider however is this: did America as a whole EVER have integrity? Cut through the thick swath of myth and legend that surrounds this nation’s bloody birth and you will find that our Constitution, the Holy Bible of legalism in America, was actually an illegal document before it was ratified. Perhaps, rather than these shady cosmetic companies being a manifestation of America’s progressive loss of integrity, they are merely just a continuation of a long legacy of lies and scandals that trace all the way back to our Founding Fathers? Either way, the fact of the matter is, America has some serious integrity issues.
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